[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Not true, Germany has them all over the cities, as we do in the battlefields and locations where battles happened, where those that were involved lived and at the cemetaries where the lost are buried. Japan has left buildings we damaged stand as a monument to their brave soldiers. Hitlers birthplace in Austria still stands and is identified. The suggestion of moving the statures to a central location so kids could go and learn is a great thought but not practical. Schools don't teach history (field trips were part of my schooling), parents don't teach history. Go to any Civil War battlefield or museum and count heads, you might be surprised how many aren't there. We will eliminate any knowledge of the bad parts of our story, and for those that think that's a good thing, congratulations, your revision will happen.

I (as many others) don't see it as "trying to eliminate" the disgusting part of our past, at all.

It's simply a matter of not glorifying it...in prominent public places.

Now is a good time to revisit, when and why the majority...of those statues/monuments were put up.


Jim Crow Support - Intimidation of Blacks (click here)

But the argument that the Confederate flag and other displays represent “heritage, not hate” ignores the near-universal heritage of African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved by the millions in the South.

It trivializes their pain, their history and their concerns about racism — whether it’s the racism of the past or that of today.

And it conceals the true history of the Confederate States of America and the seven decades of Jim Crow segregation and oppression that followed the Reconstruction era.