There was nothing noble about Sherman’s march to the sea.....burning homes and towns to the ground!
The South was brought to its knees....
.....but we rose to be stronger
Why do you think these Southern states are called the Bible Belt
That’s all we had left......our FAITH!
Some of these monuments torn down or in line to be torn down were representative of a son of the community who, like many, left their homes or farms in the hollows to protect what little they have......they had never owned a slave and never would.....but they died defending what little they had.
In the Bible,God himself told his people to build monuments to acknowledge and/ or honor what had happened.
In the Civil War there were imperfect people on both sides.
To desecrate the memory of these young men, of these noble generals like Robert E Lee ISN’T honoring America....
....call it what it is.....Fascism!!
One of my previous self-described ‘Progressive activist’ Master’s level political professors argued the Civil War erased state rights and the Constitution’s ‘rules’. She did not see it as the binding Contract it is. Even often called it a ‘living document’ while teaching the many changes to states constitutions. It was easy to see the agenda. Un-believable.
I wish I knew then, and could have brought up, the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s quote of it being a binding legal document. Of course, probably impossible to educate an already indoctrinated ‘progressive professor’.