this is a great post.
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Seems rather obvious.
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Good post yourself.
How will you stop them when they finish the statues? Or are we hoping they will stop on their own self-control?
Are you rationalizing this?
Google “Jesus Christ” go to images…
What do you see
So, where is the motive for its erection mentioned and what verification of the claim is offered?
Get off google and travel. What do you see?
I lived just down the road. Went to the festival once.
Oh gosh… 
You missed my point by a mile
Those statues are form of expression, art, history,the good and the bad.
How are those any different from those that burned books back in first half of 20th century?
We are not Germany.
Modern day Republicans defending the confederacy…
I love this
The fact that libs are justifying it is reminiscing of same attitude of those in first half of 20th century.
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Its not about the statues, per se. It’s about the people who value and revere the symbolism of statue.
The Left has their statues
and the right has theirs
Okay I will make one attempt at why these statues should come down. We have to consider the South post Civil War. After the war ended, the North still held a presence during reconstruction and Blacks were able to vote. They wound up getting elected and serving their communities and living with Whites, sharing the same public space. This lasted until around 1877, when the North stopped running things down South.
Starting in the 1880s voter suppression started on the Black Communities, first state and national and later, local. After the war 100 percent of Blacks could vote, but by 1910 there were states where not a single Black person was eligible to vote. At this point, white voters could institute any policy they pleased, and they did.
Jim Crow was then instituted which created the separate but equal doctrine. Convict leasing was also instituted where a black man could be arrested for specious charges and then leased to coal mines or other dangerous jobs. 1/3rd of the Southern economy was based on convict leasing post reconstruction.
It was in that era that these statues started to be constructed. Mostly by organizations with sympathy to the Confederacy and a desire to evoke the sentiment that, even though the South lost, Blacks would never be considered citizens.
These statues serve as a reminder not just of the Civil War, but the systemic oppression and racism that existed in the South for almost a century. These were the reminders to Blacks of where the sentiments in their communities laid, and who they chose to honor. And there wasn’t a thing they could do, because they couldn’t vote.
These statues belong in a museum or a trash heap, in my opinion.
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Why should they be placed in positions of honor, like town squares?
Thing is…libs don’t get to make that decision on their own. Specially with early first half of 20th century mob like tactics.
When I see em doing this it reminds me of pictures of mob like book burning during that period.
One and the same.
because many citizens honor them …and not as a celebration of slavery either. No monument that I know of celebrates slavery.
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Did I? What was your “point”?
