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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most Northern college towns haven’t had a statue celebrating the fight for slavery. Overt racism is the low-hanging fruit.

Systemic racism is a larger beast we do all need to address. It will take much longer to undo the damage of generations of slavery and poverty.

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Oh, there are statues to confederate people in states that didn't fight on the confederate side. I thought everyone knew that. Wow.

Systemic racism is everywhere. It's in schools, the workplace, local and state government, law enforcement. Everywhere. Too many northerners fold their arms and think this isn't their problem. Stop pointing down at Charlottesville and start working at your own table. If you aren't addressing this stuff in your family, in your workplace, and in your town, you are the problem. [/quote]

[b]I’m addressing it in my family and town. You?

What confederate statues are in Cambridge, MA? New Haven, CT? Burlington, VT? Syracuse, NY? Amherst, MA? Ithaca, NY? Ann Arbor, MI? Providence, NH?

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The alt-right riot in Charlottesville was over the removal of one statue.  The riots had nothing to do with UVA.  It's likening a riot in Watts or Compton with USC, or a protest in Westwood with UCLA.  You might be surprised to learn that confederate memorials, public and private, are all over the United States and in foreign countries as well.  Please remember also that the Civil War wasn't exclusively about slavery.  Confederate Memorials DO exist in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, California, Utah, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Wisconsin, Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Idaho, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Colorado and Hawaii.  There are Confederate Memorial statues in the U.S. Capitol in the National Statuary Hall.  Many of our military bases and ships, etc., were named after those who lost their lives in that terrible, bloody war.  There are also Confederate Memorials in Brazil, Canada, Ireland and Scotland.  I think it is good that we are reminded of the bloodshed from that event so it doesn't happen again.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials[/quote]

This post is about UVA *and* Charlottesville.

UVA was founded because Jefferson thought it “was necessary to protect the sons of the South from abolitionist teachings in the North.”

Charlottesville CELEBRATED the fight to keep slavery with a prominent statue in public space.

A memorial plaque in a private cemetery isn’t quite the same thing.

Virginia has 200+ monuments in public spaces. It even has a state holiday.

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