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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's time to fund the National Slavery Museum and gift the confederacy monuments to them.
It's part of our racist history just like the Holocaust is part of Europe's.
They should be used as a teaching tool for current and future generations.
'Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.'
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It's time to fund the National Slavery Museum and gift the confederacy monuments to them. (Original Post)
grossproffit
Aug 2017
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oasis
(49,454 posts)1. Photos will do. The actual statues should be put on a sandbar
so the seagulls can have something to shit on.
DBoon
(22,414 posts)2. What did the eastern European nations do with the statues of Lenin and Stalin?
might be a useful example to follow
oasis
(49,454 posts)3. Just so those rebel icons are adequately defiled. Make my day.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)4. I'm glad the Holocaust museum didn't do this.
brush
(53,964 posts)5. Why would such a museum want that crap? Just melt 'em down and re-purpose the metal.
New trash cans seems appropriate, or maybe sewer grates.