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Originally Posted by tvbound
The majority of those monuments/statues/Etc. were erected long after 'The War of Traitors on the United States' to intimidate blacks and to push Jim Crow laws. If someone wants to worship a bunch of traitorous losers on private, NOT public, property, I have no problem with that and say - go for it. Not to mention that removing them has absolutely no affect on actual/true history, so that argument is dead from the beginning.
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I sincerely feel that the monuments erected within the first decades following the Civil War should be moved to museums of history, and possibly even in art gallery expeditions. At this point, the statues themselves have histories of their own, no matter what they might represent.
I don't feel they belong in public parks. I don't think we need to (or should) forget that these statues were built, and why they were built. If they are eliminated from existence, it'd be easier to forget.
They deserve a 3-D version of a "wall of shame." To say "this is the image of the man who was a really nice guy even though he committed treason against his country to fight against it in the Civil War and this isn't actually the horse he rode in on, because his actual horse was too small so the artist made this horse bigger for perspective."
With plaques explaining what each statue is about.