In many places, the South tends to cling to glorified representations of the civil war seemingly without consideration to the continuing negativity & pain slavery has actually caused but the ownership & oppression of others wasn’t uniquely perpetrated by male white colonial Americans. But we are condoning & perpetuating a falsely myopic perspective of human history now. Slaves historically were not always black. Jews & some Eastern Europeans come to mind as well as historically indentured or oppressed women and children. It’s too easy to focus on one situation and ignore the bigger picture.
Imagine if there were prolific public art or statues paying homage to England’s King George or to Spain or Mexico in locales that they previously owned and ruled before they lost them in wars or by purchases pre-America.
Truthfully, much of the South’s public art symbolism is weird & offensive to me, kind of like “the last great act of defiance!”
Do we know what the Cherokee Trail of Tears was? Do we actively rectify the perpetual—sometimes violent—oppression of women?
Why do the rioters violently destroy other’s property, with reckless disregard for others safety, yet they are ironically supposed to be protesting oppressive unjust violence.
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