[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by jammies

The Civil War *was* about states' rights - the right of the states to the institution of slavery. Similarly, these statues *are* historical remembrances - of the antebellum age where anyone white was superior to anyone black.

Neither statement legitimizes veneration of the past when complete and not deceptively shorn of their negative components. This technique of "true" but incomplete declarative statements is a favorite of ideologues of all kinds. The plain, simple truth should immediately arouse the deepest suspicion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0d0d2cc84c952

[The statue] was designed to intimidate African Americans and to reassure white Americans in a moment of rising black power.