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Reply to "Removing and Renaming Confederate Statues, Schools, Streets, etc: Why? "
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no legitimate argument for keeping the monuments. Noted that pp was asked twice to list non-racist reasons for doing so, and could not. [/quote] Taking down a statue of Lee in Texas or wherever? If the motives of the ones who put it up were impure, then it makes sense to take it down. Taking down a memorial to Lee in Arlington Cemetery, at his home? That is a bizarre thing to do. [/quote] The Lee Memorial in Arlington was done during the Jim Crow era. [/quote] His citizenship was (properly) restored in the 1970s. And? That's a good place for a memorial. [/quote] For what exactly? Why would the US government memorialize a traitor who lead to the death of 600k Americans? Because he wanted to continue to enslave 4 million people. [/quote]
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