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SPLC: Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy
June 04, 2018
The Civil War ended 153 years ago. The Confederacy, as Mitch Landrieu said, was on the wrong side of humanity. Our public entities should no longer play a role in distorting history by honoring a secessionist government that waged war against the United States to preserve white supremacy and the enslavement of millions of people.
Its past time for the South and the rest of the nation to bury the myth of the Lost Cause once and for all.
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President Donald Trump has sided with those who want to continue honoring the Confederacy, calling the removal of beautiful monuments foolish and tweeting that it is [s]ad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart.
In New Orleans, a multicultural city steeped in Southern history, the political leadership took the opposite tack. In 2017, then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu powerfully defended the citys removal of three prominent monuments and denounced the false narrative promoted by the Cult of the Lost Cause. That cult, he said, had one goal through monuments and through other means to rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity.
Its past time for the South and the rest of the nation to bury the myth of the Lost Cause once and for all.
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President Donald Trump has sided with those who want to continue honoring the Confederacy, calling the removal of beautiful monuments foolish and tweeting that it is [s]ad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart.
In New Orleans, a multicultural city steeped in Southern history, the political leadership took the opposite tack. In 2017, then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu powerfully defended the citys removal of three prominent monuments and denounced the false narrative promoted by the Cult of the Lost Cause. That cult, he said, had one goal through monuments and through other means to rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity.
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https://www.splcenter.org/20180604/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy
Mitch Landrieu's speech on Confederate monuments (from 2017) can be read here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieus-speech-transcript.html
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SPLC: Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (Original Post)
inanna
Jun 2018
OP
Yeah-- more than 1700 too many. As a nation, we did not fullyrepudiate slavery...
TreasonousBastard
Jun 2018
#5
Phoenix61
(17,009 posts)1. Landrieu's speech is excellent
I learned a lot. I mistakenly assumed the statues were erected immediately after the war.
inanna
(3,547 posts)2. I think many learned from that speech.
And yes, it was excellent.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. In Germany it is generally illegal to popularize WWII "heroes"...
Ain't no statues of Rommel out there.
Why not the same here?
inanna
(3,547 posts)4. According to this article from the SPLC...
there are more than 1700 symbols of the confederacy in public spaces...
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)5. Yeah-- more than 1700 too many. As a nation, we did not fullyrepudiate slavery...
and the Confederacy, we effectively continued it with Jim Crow in the South.
And we are still paying for that.