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In reply to the discussion: Pence: Build More Statues Instead Of Taking Down Confederate Monuments [View all]SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)38. Not quite true.
These memorials were not memorializing the dead. They were glorifying the Confederacy and Confederate generals, i.e. those who sent Confederate soldiers to their deaths.
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Pence: Build More Statues Instead Of Taking Down Confederate Monuments [View all]
Stuart G
Aug 2017
OP
The fake history of the U.S. that they created through those Confederate "monuments"
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2017
#2
Because, the people who were enslaved were equally responsible for the problem. Got it.
jalan48
Aug 2017
#4
Most if not all major cities already have an African American History museum
BumRushDaShow
Aug 2017
#33
I'd be on board with that, along with memorials to the civil rights struggle, etc nt
geek tragedy
Aug 2017
#42
Let me guess-more money for giant monuments to Christianity, less money for social programs
Freethinker65
Aug 2017
#13
Remind me again what Robert E Lee did to move our nation to be a "more perfect Union"
world wide wally
Aug 2017
#17
He wants one dedicated to the doctor who allegedly proves homosexuality is a choice after
Eliot Rosewater
Aug 2017
#32