Why do people claim that taking down Confederate statues is erasing history?

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Fun Confederate fact: They got whooped soundly; they had their hide tanned by U. S. Grant in the woodshed; their great-grandkids are still crying about it; and they did not ring.

...now you're hurtin' on the ring issue as well, son. You left that one down there in South Florida because White woman from town took Duncan to that same shed of wood.

They had your ropes situated and was a sellin' your shit a hand over a fist. Then? Then all the laughter died in sorrow...

You're short one, dad. Sometimes you eat that bear (for Cubby) keepin' them Suns away from it.........and sometimes, kid, that old bear? He just gets up all over ya...Take a look, sweetheart...
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[Ef-man]

Fun Confederate fact: They got whooped soundly; they had their hide tanned by U. S. Grant in the woodshed; their great-grandkids are still crying about it; and they did not ring.

Fun Confederate fact 2: William Tecumseh Sherman had a real blast in Goergia with a fiery time in Atlanta.

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...now you're hurtin' on the ring issue as well, son. You left that one down there in South Florida because White woman from town took Duncan to that same shed of wood.

They had your ropes situated and was a sellin' your shit a hand over a fist. Then? Then all the laughter died in sorrow...

You're short one, dad. Sometimes you eat that bear (for Cubby) keepin' them Suns away from it.........and sometimes, kid, that old bear? He just gets up all over ya...Take a look, sweetheart...
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Let us proceed...

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[Ef-man]

Too bad that Biden is changing the names of Fort This and Fort That, shame, as they speak of the heritage of the poorly educated great grandkids of the Confederates.

[ChumpDumper]

Too bad that Biden is changing the names of Fort This and Fort That, shame, as they speak of the heritage of the poorly educated great grandkids of the Confederates.

Trump proves the traitor insurrectionist names were pretty forgettable in the first place.

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[Ef-man]

Trump proves the traitor insurrectionist names were pretty forgettable in the first place.

In their revisionist history, J6 will be described as the “day that nothing happened, here nor there.”

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[Chucho]

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You wasting your vote on a schlub who won't even be on the ballots in some states is really you defeating you.

Is there a way to swap out Dale to bring Avante back?

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You wasting your vote on a schlub who won't even be on the ballots in some states is really you defeating you.

Is there a way to swap out Dale to bring Avante back?

Whatever continues to tear this country up & apart is Jake with me, Chooch. And in the bitter end perhaps we'll meet in the street.

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Whatever continues to tear this country up & apart is Jake with me, Chooch. And in the bitter end perhaps we'll meet in the street, kids.

[Winehole23]

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[Ef-man]

1750372078107124056

“Why? We won!” is as true an adage as FAFO.

C’est la vie

[Ef-man]

The flag was quickly surrendered by a confederate soldier when he was given this option by a Union trooper with a bayonet: “Throw down that flag or I'll run you through”


FYI: Flag available for viewing in Saint Paul, MN.

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[Winehole23]

the confederate statues are coming back

Trump is rewhiting US history


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the confederate statues are coming back

Trump is rewhiting US history

..."in the name of the greatest people who has ever trod this earth."

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

is it woke for Virginia to honor a student activist who stood up for equal treatment under the law in place of Robert E Lee in Emancipation Hall?

I thought that was illegal DEI in Trump's America -- civil rights for nonwhites and other politically disfavored minorities is unlawful now

and otherwise not in alignment with the priorities of the president


In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol.

Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she mobilized hundreds of students to walk out of Farmville's Robert Russa Moton High School to protest its overcrowded conditions and inferior facilities compared to those of the town's white high school.

That fight was taken up by the NAACP and eventually became one of the five cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed in Brown v. Board of Education, whose landmark 1954 ruling declared school segregation unconstitutional.

"Before the sit-ins in Greensboro, before the Montgomery bus boycott, there was the student strike here in 1951, led by Barbara Johns," Cameron Patterson told NPR in 2020 (https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/947918242/virginia-lawmakers-to-decide-on-fate-of-robert-e-lee-statue), when he led the Robert Russa Moton Museum (https://motonmuseum.org/), located on the former school grounds.

Johns' bronze statue is the latest addition to Emancipation Hall, a gathering place in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center that houses many of the 100 statues representing each state.

Every state legislature gets to honor two notable individuals from its history with statues in the Capitol. For over a century, Virginia was represented (https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/brochures/low-res/CVC_17-117_GuideToStateStatues.pdf) by George Washington and, until a few years ago, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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[Winehole23]

bully on Virginia

[Winehole23]

(is it the death throes of Woke 1.0 or the birth pangs of Woke 2.0?)

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