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Old 09-15-2021, 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by tvbound View Post
"about 170 years to even realize the statues were there."

That's simply not true. Decent people have been complaining about them being on public property, pretty much since they were put up to intimidate black Americans and push back against eliminating Jim Crow and segregation laws. As for being "170 years," there's a timeline in a previous post, w/link, that showed when the most active periods of the vast majority of these statues/monuments were erected (20th Century) - but certainly wasn't 10 years prior to the Civil War even starting.
Not on Monument Ave. Not until the Floyd ordeal.