Re: Send Confederate traitor statues to museums? They don't fucking WANT them!

On 10/9/20 5:08 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
> Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy?
> 
> Moving troubled monuments to museums for context may sound like an easy 
> answer, but the story of trying to send a statue of Jefferson Davis back 
> to his hometown shows how difficult that really is.
> 
> [...]
> 
> President Donald Trump, who threatened to punish state and local 
> governments that fail to protect them from destruction or vandalism, has 
> defended “our beautiful” Confederate statues, proposing a grandiose 
> statue park that will likely never be built. Caught between calls to 
> remove statues from public view and to leave them up, officials from 
> Florida to Indiana and from Virginia to Texas have increasingly sought 
> to put them in existing museums they claim will give disputed monuments 
> “context.”
> 
> But those museums often do not have the resources to change 
> generations-old history narratives, leaving states and towns wondering 
> if they should invest more taxpayer dollars in new museums or leave the 
> statues as they are — and hope a lack of advertising and funding 
> discourages people from visiting them. The effort to bring Jefferson 
> Davis home to Fairview shows just how fraught navigating that conflict is.
> 
> Around Fairview, a city of under 200, there is no consensus about what 
> should be done with Confederate monuments and the history they 
> represent. For generations, students from the area were brought on field 
> trips to the Davis birth site to have lunch at its picnic grounds and 
> ride the elevator up the obelisk. Shaneika Brooks, 42, a former welder, 
> was one of those schoolchildren. She only realized Davis’s commitment to 
> maintaining slavery when she was older and has avoided it ever since. 
> Now she and others worry that moving the Kentucky Capitol monument could 
> reignite old tensions.
> 
> “We have enough history here with racism,” she said in an interview at a 
> park in neighboring Hopkinsville, where she now lives. “Don’t bring it 
> here because somebody else doesn’t want it and don’t want to deal with 
> that problem. We don’t want the problems either.”
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/arts/design/jefferson-davis-monument.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage 
> 
> 
> So here's what to do with the things:  grind them up and use them when 
> paving new roads.


Then send them to the NATIONAL BATTLE FIELDS... I know of several that 
could place them on the Southern side of the battlefield.  To mark out 
the areas and remember the soldiers on both sides.

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That's karma


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=36&v=UXA--dj2-CY&feature=emb_logo

Son of a bitch, NOT a smidgen of corruption...???