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

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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 uncons utional.

"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, when he led the Robert Russa Moton Museum, 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 by George Washington and, until a few years ago, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/16/nx-s1...capitol-statue

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bully on Virginia

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