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Old 09-16-2021, 09:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 View Post
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.
So, just to clarify a statue of a slave owner is OK, but a statue of a Soldier that may not even have had a slave has to be removed? So, everyone else on here is talking slave ownership (which some documentation suggests was by a black man FIRST in the U.S.) and you say the idea is to tear down what you deem to be are "traitor" statues? I don't think that is the consensus.
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