The men who, in all righteousness, fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil war, not because they believed in the institution of slavery, but because they believed the individual state had considerably more authority to control many matters within their own borders than was being granted to them by the Federal government at the time, had drifted into a conundrum that is still instructive to us today.
Erasing these men and their accomplishments (and there were MANY good men who fought on the side of the Confederacy) is to deny history, much as the Communists of Russia denied the history of the Czars. Yet curiously, many of the statues of Lenin and even Stalin still exist in the Russian Federation, as a continuous reminder of the excesses and failures of the Soviet regime.
Memorials are our physical reminders of a specific time in history. And to how the lessons from that history may be applied to the world going forward.
Confederate statues are monuments to states rights which is an anathema to statists and globalists everywhere.
Finally had a chance to go to Stone Mountain yesterday. It confirmed for me that black intansigence toward the Confederacy is largely a myth, as the majority of employees there are, and at least 30% of attendees were black.
If they destroyed that frieze on the manadnock’s wall, I’m convinced the place would have to close.