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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe resolution calling for the immediate destruction of all Confederate Monuments in #Baltimore
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The resolution calling for the immediate destruction of all Confederate Monuments in #Baltimore (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
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Barack_America
(28,876 posts)1. Good, glorification of racism is not worth preserving.
Monuments of the fight against it are. That's the only way it should be remembered, an evil that was defeated.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)2. This is gonna be a Kodak moment.
I bet there will be cheering crowds, just like when Soviet junk went down in the old Warsaw Pact.
Juliusseizure
(562 posts)3. Only took 150 years but take your time
There shouldn't be any confederate anything anywhere.
lostnfound
(16,198 posts)4. Actually, Joy Reid said many monuments were created in the 1960s as reaction to civil rights laws
Which puts them in an even worse light.
The one in Charlottesville was built 50 years after civil war.
lostnfound
(16,198 posts)5. This says that 35 were built AFTER 2000 in North Carolina alone!
http://heavy.com/news/2017/08/robert-e-lee-charlottesville-statue-unite-the-right-white-nationalists/
Who the hell is funding these things?