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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This is good. [/b]

[i]The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”[/i]

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Is it really, though. Is the answer to just abolish anything that brings up that period in our history? You can’t simply remove and destroy. Well, I guess you can as evidenced here but it’s not the way. Learning from history, but still accepting this was a period in our county’s history, makes more sense. It’s like those people running around trying to shut down freedom of speech. Isn’t the the answer to have better speech- than to shut the other side down? [/quote]

It would be easier for me to agree with you — if, over the last 150 years or so, this country— as a whole — grappled honestly with the painfully ignoble aspects of our country’s history, and made sure that everyone understood our history, resolved to grow beyond it.  Instead, we got Jim Crow laws, legal racial segregation, a few years of complicated and modest progress, and, now, MAGA influencing everything from our “justice” system to books no longer available in school libraries.  
So, I’d agree with you that there are better ways to handle this country’s history, but what many people have learned from this period in history is that white supremacy has its benefits.  We had a century and a half to do better.  Many, including those who erected such statues and those who venerate them, have deliberately chosen not to.  [/quote]

NP.  Nope.  Coming together as a single unified country after a civil war is a true success story.  Tearing statues down now is bizarre.  We don't need to, shouldn't, relitigate the civil war.

How much time have you spent in different parts of this country?  Have you spent any time?[/quote]

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