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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
The Bay removed a plaque honoring Jefferson Davis overnight as well...
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-building.html
I was in Savanah once and at a restaurant built in the 1800's. They uncovered a confederate war map drawn on a wall during a renovation. They preserved it and have it in a climate controlled frame. That's the kind of stuff that would be sad to see go. That's actual history and important. People don't have a problem with that sort of stuff. |
Indeed. And there are countless battleground and massacre historical sites. No one is screaming for these to be shut down. Again, actual history with importance.
Things set up to try to whitewash history, influence future generation and celebrate traitors is not that. It is people who believed in the following:
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The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution."
... the great truth [is] that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
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This is the part of the speech of the Confederate Vice-President the New Orleans mayor used and Al Franken used today.
Move the statues to a museum environment where the full, fact based history of the war can be dicussed. No problem with that. But to have them on street corners as celebratory pieces, and make no mistake that is exactly what they are, should not happen.
And I would argue it is completely different than a George Washington statue in Britain...he may have been a traitor to the crown but he was also a father of modern democracy. He deserves some celebration. He was, despite several faults, on the right side of history and moral belief when it came to fair political systems. The confederate was and always will be on the wrong side.