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As a reminder, the majority of the Confederate statues weren't erected right after the Civil War. In fact, Robert E. Lee was against statues commemorating the Confederacy. He wanted it to be consigned to history.
The bulk of these statues were erected during the Him Crow era as a means of intimidating the black population. They were a way of saying "don't you DARE use those new freedoms like the right to vote or else you'll get THIS!"
Oh, and given how the parties flipped, these statues were likely erected by Democrats. So Greene is defending statues that Democrats put up.
The only reason why all of these statues shouldn't be torn down into pieces and melted is that a few should be sent to museums to be exhibits about the Jim Crow era. That's the only appropriate place for them.
I totally agree that these statues should be kept intact but not maintained in a memorial garden where the whole treason can be enshrined and never forgotten.
I'm reminded of the giant lynching mural at Indiana University and how some sensitive white kids were offended by it and wanted it removed. The black student union had to remind them, "this is your history, this is where you come from. If you erase it, you risk forgetting it".
The most painful history is the stuff we need to preserve. Humans suffered, fought, and died so that we could live a better life. I don't want to forget that.
The irony.
Bronzy, usually.
Wilson segregated the federal government, refounded the KKK, sponsored Birth of a Nation, and started erecting the statues. Fucker needs to be remembered as the worst president in history, just because of the shit he did domestically, I won't even get into the shit show he caused with his foreign policies