Museum or dumpster? Confederate statues' fate

[struggle4progress]

AUGUST 17, 2017 / 2:49 PM / AN HOUR AGO
Gabriella Borter

... In Baltimore, statues are now in storage, according to the mayor's spokesman Anthony McCarthy, who said they will likely end up in a Confederate cemetery or a museum ...

Anna Lopez Brosche, city council president in Jacksonville, Florida, encouraged the removal of Confederate statues from public property on Monday and proposed placing them where they will be "historically contextualized."

In Lexington, Kentucky, Mayor Jim Gray has proposed removing statues from one city park, formerly the site of a slave auction block and whipping post ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-protests-memorial-idUSKCN1AW1R4

[wasupaloopa]

1. This week I learned that the Confederate statues where erected to

promote white supremacy not celebrate the Civil War.

So I say melt them down and make statues celebrating diversity

[Snake Plissken]

2. Anything from the actual civil war era should be sent to a museum

Anything built afterwards should be sent to a scrapyard to be recycled, or landfill.

[angstlessk]

3. Have the reight wing donate to build a confederate museum

in Miss or Ala and donate (after reimbursement for the cost of removal and storage) all those statues and iconography.

Could work?

[OxQQme]

4. Donate them to Beauregard

He can use them as lawn gnomes.

OR

drumpf could start a peewee golf course at Mar A Lago and use them as hazards.