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Old 08-13-2017, 01:11 PM
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So what happens now? Do only the statues that pay homage and respect to Confederate Soldiers, who by the way are considered to be Veterans of The US, get torn down? Or do we continue on and branch out to the number of our Founding Fathers that were slave owners? How about Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson? They all were slave owners! Do we have to change the name of Washington DC? Is the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials coming down? You can't just pick and choose which history you want to abolish. If Slavery is the common point of contention, then you have to look at the whole spectrum. By the way, the early slaves and some after, were sold into slavery by Black Slave Owners!!
1) Civil War veterans, not the statues or plaques commemorating them were given Veteran standing.

2) Lincoln did not own any slaves

3) the history of slave ownership is not in the scope of this discussion, but America has a long history of discrimination up to this day, so, perhaps it is time to start changing that history