Running racism in America thread

Yeah, I don't think the guy is scanning anything. Wasn't he trying to return a helmet? Or something?

 

To be clear: I'm all for tearing down Confederate Monuments this very moment.

But there is a distinction between a Confederate Monument in a random town somewhere, and a Confederate Monument on a Battlefield marking an actual historical happening.

 

Cuck Alert.
Jerry Falwell Jr. apologizes for tweet with racist photo after black students and alumni denounced him - CNN

 

This is fair and appropriate. Monuments on battlefields, explaining historical happenings, are very different from planting a stature of a Confederate soldier facing North in every courthouse square in Georgia.

 

Speaking of which. Photos below, Mayor of Birmingham on left, Mayor of Mobile on right.

 

Historical markers are fine.

 

Found more small-town antifa!

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Of course he wasn't scanning anything with his phone. It's inarguable amongst the sane.

 

For now.

 

Justin, I agree, but the military park statues aren't the ones that have people aggravated.

They are already memorialized there. You can also make the case a lot of our military bases are memorials to the CSA.

 

The most bemonumented and bestatued place in the United States is Gettysburg National Historical Park. Most of 'em, Union and Confederate alike, were put up by veterans of the conflict. That is different. So is a town's monument to its war dead. Every town in Massachusetts has one for its fallen in the War of the Rebellion and I assume most towns in Alabama, to a random southern state, do too. Putting up heroic statues of loser generals in your town or city center IS different in kind from those memorials.