[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Where was all this hate for historic statues/etc last month? Last year?

I say once again to be concluding the intent of history using the current social yard stick is unfair/inaccurate/wrong.

The current upheaval is once again sponsored by minority and special interest groups driven by a political/personal agenda, validated and promoted by the same political supported media.

If you actually choose to look/research, you'll find that this issue has been ongoing...for a LONG time.

Please note that this article was written in 2017.

Opposition to confederate statues and flags (poke here)

As you can see in the timeline below, the number of Confederate memorial installations peaked around 1910 — 50 years after the end of the Civil War and at the height of Jim Crow, an era defined by segregation and disenfranchisement laws against black Americans.

Confederate installations spiked again in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Civil Rights Movement.