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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:14 PM Jul 2015

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Should segregationist statue in SC tell about massacre too?

Jeffrey Collins
The Associated Press
Published: July 19, 2015, 1:25 pm
Updated: July 19, 2015, 5:04 pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As South Carolina pulled down the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds, the statue of avowed segregationist .. Ben Tillman watched. Tillman’s statue seems safe for now ... Some lawmakers suggest putting excerpts of Tillman’s speeches on the monument. Tillman bragged about his role in a lynch mob that killed seven black Republicans as part of a voter intimidation scheme in what became known as the Hamburg Massacre in 1876.

http://nbc26.tv/2015/07/19/should-segregationist-statue-in-sc-tell-about-massacre-too/

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Should segregationist statue in SC tell about massacre too? (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

I think all such monuments should include complete, accurate histories. haikugal Jul 2015 #1

Should anything named after Robert Byrd include a complete history of his KKK past? Nye Bevan Jul 2015 #2

Of course it should. His growth as a human being is worth noting, don't you think? nt haikugal Jul 2015 #3

Where's the monument to the seven men he killed? surrealAmerican Jul 2015 #4

haikugal

(6,476 posts)

1. I think all such monuments should include complete, accurate histories.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:31 PM

Jul 2015

Not the revisionist version.

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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

2. Should anything named after Robert Byrd include a complete history of his KKK past?

Reply to haikugal (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:33 PM

Jul 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd

haikugal

(6,476 posts)

3. Of course it should. His growth as a human being is worth noting, don't you think? nt

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:35 PM

Jul 2015

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)

4. Where's the monument to the seven men he killed?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun Jul 19, 2015, 05:52 PM

Jul 2015

They sound like people who should be remembered.

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