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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs Confederate monuments tumble, die-hards are erecting replacements
The teardowns get all the attention, Walter Donnie Kennedy grumbles.
Every time a local government votes to remove a century-old Confederate war monument, every time activists swing ropes around statues and yank them to the ground, our enemies claim victory again, said Kennedy, the chief of heritage operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. We know America doesnt agree with us heck, they fought a war against us but were going to tell our story.
Their membership might be dwindling, and their popular support seems to shrink by the day, but the guardians of Americas 700-plus Confederate monuments are mounting a serious defense filing lawsuits and demanding control of statues slated for removal.
They, too, are launching a concerted offensive.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans and, in a quieter way, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the group that erected many of the monuments that are now the target of the biggest removal campaign in history, are pushing back by building new statues, buying land to house torn-down memorials, and airing radio and online ads seeking public support for their cause.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-confederate-monuments-tumble-die-hards-are-erecting-replacements/2020/07/25/44f537ee-cd04-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html
Assholes gotta be assholes.
Docreed2003
(16,889 posts)Yeah, and we won asshole
Archetypist
(218 posts)he can fuck off to Brazil
KatyMan
(4,216 posts)Why do they hate America?
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exboyfil
(17,865 posts)I don't have an issue with it. Trump has plenty of places he could put them. I wonder why no reporter asks him about it.
What they do with their own money on private property, as long as it doesnt violate locate ordinances is their own business. Theyre still assholes.
Vogon_Glory
(9,136 posts)I dont mind them having smaller memorials in private BUT NOT IN YOUR FACE IN A BIG PUBLIC PLACE.
Zorro
(15,753 posts)but it's a giant in-your-face FUCK Y'ALL to everyone driving by. I think it will be a flaming arrow target someday.
2naSalit
(86,897 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,496 posts)While it burns.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)hiding behind "history and heritage". My step dad was member, read a couple of their magazines, far right propaganda.
TexasTowelie
(112,619 posts)so at this point we will have to be satisifed with removing the statues and memorials from public property.