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Originally Posted by Byte1
Lincoln was a racist too. Wasn't he involved in the creation of Liberia, consisting of an experiment in exporting slaves/former slaves to Africa? Guess we had better tear down monuments honoring him. Washington had slaves so tear down the Washington Monument. Better yet, every man is flawed so let's remove any reminders to anything that is not showing America favorably.
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But neither Lincoln, nor Washington fought in a war against the US, for the purpose of persevering the institution of slavery.
The Confederates who are honored with statues would unlikely be known at all to us were it not for their part in a war fought to preserve human slavery.