Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., said the Confederate statues send a message to Black people that their lives are not valued because those being honored "stood for the proposition that you were less than human." "It’s personally an affront to me as a Black man to walk around and look at ...
history and it definitely wasn’t a good part of history but it was a learning experience for it to not happen again. The statues and flag stands for history of the south and every time someone see a flag or monument it reminds them of what the ancestors of the south did and fought ...
During the subsequent era (Jim Crow and the nadir of American race relations) the slave power preserved the legal right of white people to kill Black Americans with impunity, especially in large groups (lynchings), and erected a bunch of statues of Confederate generals to com...
Confederate flags still fly on state buildings, and confederate statues remain standing. Areas of Mississippi didn’t celebrate the 4th of July again post Civil War until the 1950s, in mourning for the loss. Now include with all of this the post reconstruction period, Jim Crow Laws, the way...
are two other statues, one to Matthew Fontaine Maury (oceanographer who resigned from the US Navy to serve the Confederacy) unveiled in 1929, and one to Arthur Ashe (African American tennis player and HIV activist) placed in 1996 in an attempt to counter the Confederate narrative of the ...
another was a bronze figure of Confederate hero Gen. Robert E. Lee that stood for 133 years. "Robert E. Lee was used as an example to send a message to the rest of the country, and to all the people that lived here, that the Confederacy was a noble cause. And that's just not ...
one can make the case that here’s a fellow that did not start with the testing regimen, did not immediately do anything rigorous to prevent the spread here and is not taking steps now. Trump’s payingmoreattention to confederate statues than he is t...
You, Brother N, are the prime example of that. But with Putin’s structure saying that phrase, he may have pushed further to undermine the very few men like you who dare speak openly about the Jews. Even the very monstrous Jew is gonna hide behind that phrase just like they’ve been...
---As for most Confederate statues of common soldiers ... I and a lot of people of people consider them monuments to men who fought for their state and regions ... and not for slavery ... few owned slaves. ... Are going to keep the union ones just because they won. ......