Posted on 06/19/2021 3:12:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
What do we do when great people do bad things, hold bad beliefs, or support bad causes? (Cancel them?) Across America, communities are arguing over what to do with statues of and memorials to great figures in American history, whose actions or beliefs conflict with modern standards. In Virginia, one of the state’s premier colleges is struggling with how (or whether) to honor the legacy of one of the nation’s greatest military figures. The outcome of that struggle could influence how modern-day Americans eventually reckon with our country’s glorious-but-checkered past.
For more than one hundred years, a statue of General Thomas J. Jackson, known to the world as “Stonewall” Jackson, stood overlooking the grounds of the Main Post at the Virginia Military Institute, or VMI. Jackson taught at the school for the ten years before the Civil War broke out and he became a general in the Confederate Army. VMI graduate Moses Ezekiel, who fought as a cadet at the Battle of New Market, sculpted the statue. A Washington Post article from December 7th called the statue the “spiritual centerpiece” of the institute.
No longer. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, Black Lives Matter protests, and an explosive Washington Post article alleging racism at VMI, the institute’s Board of Visitors voted to remove the statue. Completely. They didn’t relocate it to a less-prominent place on the campus. They sent it completely off post. Stonewall’s statue ended up seventy miles away, in New Market, at a VMI-run museum that commemorates the cadet corps’ fight there against Union troops in 1864.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Blacks act like they were the only ones that worked way back then.
And when I hear that Blacks built the Whitehouse...I wanna puke. Not that they didn't help...but so did thousands of whites.
George Floyd wasn’t murdered.
There are new Confederate flags being raised across the country. It is in response to bs moves like this one.
Its a movement that says enough of this crap already.
You can move the statue and hide the man but you cannot hide what he did.
Excellent article.
If Stonewall Jackson is bad then so are most of the founders and our history. Of course so are the people and history of any other group.
Quit demonize and undermining our nation.
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Bttt
We are now the Taliban.
And the left have been claiming that for some time now.
You mean like Abe Lincoln, the man who ordered the murder of his own countrymen? If he wanted to free the slaves, why didnt he invade the carribean where there were twice as many slaves as in the US? Proof the civil war wasnt all about slavery. It was about an egomanic not wanting his presidency tarnished. Abe lincoln is Napoleon II, or baby Mussalini.
“What do we do when great people do bad things, hold bad beliefs, or support bad causes?”
Bad things, bad beliefs, support bad causes?
Stonewall Jackson, Robert E Lee fought to repel an invading military force.
I suppose when CRT really gets going, it will be considered “bad” to oppose an invading Chines army.
Sure it was. Just ask the Southern leaders of the time. Including Jackson.
Sorry but the abolitionists didn’t hijack the war effort until after the Conscription Act was passed......
I used to say that I was proud to be from Virginia…maybe not so much now…
Most people in this country have, at best, a second-rate third-grade level understanding of the Civil War. Removing all traces of the Confederacy is not going to improve that.
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that the Southern leadership saw the defense of their slave institution as the primary reason for their secession.
Funny how Lincoln himself would disagree with you...
VMI is no more. Stonewall Jackson is gone, soon the honor code.
Most cadets and alumni dont know it yet, but a VMI cannot reject Stonewall anymore than one can excise ones own heart.
VMI unmoored from honor, history, and tradition seems rather comical, indeed all that’s left for VMIs future is derision and pretending to have meaning and purpose.
But the Southern leaders would agree with me. There are two sides to every conflict.
No, you’re wrong. Jackson didn’t take the field to uphold slavery. He took the field because Virginia was being invaded.
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