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53. No, that is NOT why it was. It was to intimidate African Americans.

Wed Aug 23, 2017, 01:28 AM

Aug 2017

It was never "common" to glorify traitors on public property. These monuments went up in two major surges: (1) in the early 1900's -1920s, at the height of Jim Crow segregation and KKK activity, and then (2) in the 1960s, in reaction to the Civil Rights movement.

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Pence: Build More Statues Instead Of Taking Down Confederate Monuments [View all] Stuart G Aug 2017 OP

IOW Trump and I support our racist base. Botany Aug 2017 #1

The fake history of the U.S. that they created through those Confederate "monuments" BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #2

Not quite true Lithos Aug 2017 #21

They put those "memorials" in public squares BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #28

Spot on. They are monuments to traitors witn an added purpose... brush Aug 2017 #37

+1 SunSeeker Aug 2017 #39

Not quite true. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #38

You are thinking of different memorials Lithos Aug 2017 #41

Your example is one of glorification, not sorrow. And why at the Courthouse? SunSeeker Aug 2017 #45

Was not unique to the Civil War Lithos Aug 2017 #46

No one is attacking memorials at cemeteries, just on PUBLIC PROPERTY. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #47

I am explaining just why it was Lithos Aug 2017 #49

No, that is NOT why it was. It was to intimidate African Americans. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #53

And it is very "unique" for the government to memorialize TRAITORS. nt SunSeeker Aug 2017 #48

The UDC explicitly acknowledged white supremacy. Spider Jerusalem Aug 2017 #54

There are memorials Lithos Aug 2017 #55

Which is hardly the same thing Spider Jerusalem Aug 2017 #56

These mimic a lot of what I remember seeing at courthouses/cemeteries Lithos Aug 2017 #57

Like something Vice President Frank Drebin would say. 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2017 #3

Because, the people who were enslaved were equally responsible for the problem. Got it. jalan48 Aug 2017 #4

Here in Charlottesville we could ... Yonnie3 Aug 2017 #5

So... more monuments depicting the horrors of slavery? DetlefK Aug 2017 #6

So every city where there were slaves should build greymattermom Aug 2017 #9

This and more this! bronxiteforever Aug 2017 #14

Agreed Lithos Aug 2017 #24

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

What an idiot Clarity2 Aug 2017 #7

The mild-mannered snake is trying to be a bigger asshole than his boss dalton99a Aug 2017 #8

What a simple-minded, thoughtless, uninquisitive buffoon. pangaia Aug 2017 #10

+1 ffr Aug 2017 #12

No surprise there. Aristus Aug 2017 #11

Yeah and what I've read LittleGirl Aug 2017 #19

Let me guess-more money for giant monuments to Christianity, less money for social programs Freethinker65 Aug 2017 #13

Remember our history? billh58 Aug 2017 #15

Most of the people who died for the Confederacy Lithos Aug 2017 #26

But it is not billh58 Aug 2017 #35

"Most?" billh58 Aug 2017 #36

I'd favor a memorial to our American holocaust - slavery FakeNoose Aug 2017 #16

I think it needs to be many memorials Lithos Aug 2017 #27

A Slavery memorial Cold War Spook Aug 2017 #40

No it shouldn't be called that FakeNoose Aug 2017 #44

Remind me again what Robert E Lee did to move our nation to be a "more perfect Union" world wide wally Aug 2017 #17

vice repthugliKKKan heaven05 Aug 2017 #18

Maybe Pence is right. Hear me out. LonePirate Aug 2017 #20

Probably because Republicans don't read books shawn703 Aug 2017 #22

Coming soon, to an area near you left-of-center2012 Aug 2017 #23

How About We Start Dwinal87 Aug 2017 #25

um.. NO.. We can READ about our contry's mistakes, we DO NOT HAVE TO HONOR THEM!! vkkv Aug 2017 #29

Let me womansplain that last sentence flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #30

Sorry Pence, no one will ever put up a statue to you and Mother. FSogol Aug 2017 #31

He wants one dedicated to the doctor who allegedly proves homosexuality is a choice after Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #32

well Pence how about stockpiles of gravestones for the new Republican war in Afghanistan? Sunlei Aug 2017 #34

pence is sad all those slave owning christians are losing their statues nt msongs Aug 2017 #43

would be ok with more general shermans holding books of matches.... dembotoz Aug 2017 #50

I thought trump was stupid disalitervisum Aug 2017 #51

Yes lets celebrate progress by taking down racist statues. Luka Boyd Aug 2017 #52