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Posted: Sunday, August 16, 2015 9:18 am
Timothy B. Tyson
State Rep. Marilyn Avila, a Republican from Raleigh, argued for the new Mandatory Confederate Monuments bill, saying, When you talk about memorials and remembrances, the point of time at which they were erected is extremely relevant
Avila was right. She just didnt have any idea when they were actually erected. She said that the Confederate monuments went up shortly after the War Between the States ...
White North Carolinians erected nearly all of our Confederate monuments after 1898, decades after the Civil War ended. More importantly, white North Carolinians built the monuments after the White Supremacy campaigns had seized power by force and taken the vote from black North Carolinians. The monuments reflected that moment of white supremacist ascendency ...
During the Civil War, the actual Confederacy bitterly divided North Carolina. This was the last Southern state to secede; Alamance County voted overwhelmingly against secession 1,114 to 254 the only time its residents got to vote on it. There remained a persistent outcry of moral dissent. Thousands of whites even took up arms against the Confederacy and far more refused to accept its authority. Thousands of black North Carolinians escaped slavery and served in the Union Army ...
http://www.greensboro.com/civil-war-monuments/article_8f00d3c3-e221-5729-a78d-2a6fef78a91e.html
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)It happened during a period of southern historical revisionism that tried to twist justification for the war to states rights. It was bullshit, but naturally the white southerners lapped it up. And it remains to this day solidly entrenched there.
Those statues can't be gotten rid of soon enough. They are based on lies and memorialize traitors.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)I'm not really wanting to get into the business of tearing down statues and artwork. There is no telling where that ends. Lots of people are offended by art in many, may different ways.
Im not going to go down the path of the Taliban.
Best way to combat art you find offensive is to create new art....not tear down and destroy what you don't like.