Re: Send Confederate traitor statues to museums? They don't fucking WANT them!
Rudy <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 18:06:18 -0400, BeamMeUpScotty <[email protected]> wrote: >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 Âour 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 >> Âcontext. >> >> 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 DavisÂs 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. >> >> ÂWe have enough history here with racism, she said in an interview at a >> park in neighboring Hopkinsville, where she now lives. ÂDonÂt bring it >> here because somebody else doesnÂt want it and donÂt want to deal with >> that problem. We donÂt 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. Rudy is an American hating asshole.