Posted on 02/23/2021 4:03:49 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK - When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.
The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for 111 years, had been removed just weeks before — one of at least 160 public Confederate symbols taken down or moved from public spaces in 2020, according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press ahead of releasing it.
The law center, which keeps a raw count of nearly 2,100 statues, symbols, placards, buildings and public parks dedicated to the Confederacy, plans to release the latest figures from its “Whose Heritage?” database on Tuesday. It has been tracking a movement to take down the monuments since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed several Black parishioners.
“These racist symbols only serve to uphold revisionist history and the belief that white supremacy remains morally acceptable,” SPLC chief of staff Lecia Brooks said in a statement. “This is why we believe that all symbols of white supremacy should be removed from public spaces.”
The movement to remove these symbols from public spaces became part of the national reckoning on racial injustice following the May death of George Floyd.
“Exposing children to anything that falsely promotes the idea of white superiority and Black inferiority is dehumanizing,” Brooks of the SPLC said in her statement.
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This generation doesn't acknowledge the amnesty provided the Confederates AND THEIR HEIRS. So wrong.
We inherited slavery and abolished it. We keep saying Civil War did it....but many states abolished it many years earlier.
Nikki started this sh!t....
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Boy, are they going to be upset when the jury finds all the cops "not guilty"!
Nimrata Randhawa.
The Robert E. Lee statue was removed from the congress four days before Christmas in the dead of night. What’s really telling is not one person in congress said a single word about this. Cowards.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past".
I can’t say I care or understand the confederate statue thing much, but, as a non American, it strikes me as ethnic cleansing.
They are pulling down your statues so as to pretend you were never there.
It’s the same thing the Arab immigrants in Gaza and the West Bank do to Jewish archaeological sites. They claim to be native and destoy 3500 years of evidence to the contrary.
The process will be a lot easier in America.
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States rights. Before "the war" the states were superior or at least equal to the federal. After, the opposite. But what really sealed the federal power take over was the 17th amendment.
To me, CSA symbols remind us of a time when the states had more control and authority to govern than the federal which is how it was designed to be. State-ist hate those symbols.
Meanwhile, Amazon is pimping blak businesses which, of necessity, means to boycott white businesses. Why was discrimination against blax in the fifties so wrong while discrimination against whites today is ok?
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Hey left. Name one person all of this tantrum appeasement has helped or had their life improved by doing it.
To me, CSA symbols remind us of a time when the states had more control and authority to govern than the federal which is how it was designed to be. State-ist hate those symbols.
Sadly, a lot of these memorials have lost their meaning through time. We will put up new memorials after we win the current war. Those are the ones we should be thinking about.
I don think that matters.
Their motivation is like the Arabs in Gaza, the Romans destroying the Temple, and the like.
They want to destroy you as a people and pretend you never existed.
It matters, believe me.
Let me correct that: I don’t think that matters to them.
All they care about is destroying your history and pretending you don’t exist.
Destruction of monuments for this reason goes back to the days of Abraham.
You can see this from how they just as gleefully destroy statues of Lincoln as Lee.
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