An excerpt:
When Lincoln’s War ended in April of 1865, chaos consumed the collapsing Confederacy as Richmond burned, Atlanta was reduced to rubble, and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to prevent additional loss of life under strained supplies and manpower … those civilians and survivors of the conflict formally apart of the Confederate States were forcibly occupied by a foreign military, cast aside as prisoners of war, treated as chattle until they pledged allegiance to the United States, and like many, imprisoned without trial.
Southerners were not allowed to vote in the following years under Reconstruction, they were forbidden from partaking in politics, and were treated as second class citizens as Uncle Sam held his steel boot on the necks of Dixie…Southerners were forbidden from publicly mourning their Confederate dead, where anything considerable to the “lost cause” would be confiscated and destroyed.
Confederate Monuments didn’t go up until the end of Reconstruction when US troops left the streets of Southern cities and shipped out from occupying our war ravaged lands for elsewhere, and even then, Monuments wouldn’t be erected until they were individually fundraised for by locals. And the remainder of Confederate Monuments that went up specifically between the years of 1960 and 1965 were done so in the Centennial of the War….Do your part, honor your local history, and preserve what you can in a destructive world
And these are the monuments being singled out for destruction and removal. How does that make any sense? How can this not be considered bullying, kicking someone when they’re down, beating up on the underdog? How can it not be considered cruel, mean, intolerant, and lacking in empathy? And how can the people who do this be perceived as holding the moral high ground?
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