Someone posted an interesting story in a FaceBook group. The story was about a small Southern town (in Virginia, I think) that wanted to put up a monument to its Civil War soldiers. They ordered a statue of a Confederate soldier.
The manufacturer of the monument was mass-producing monuments for both Northern and Southern communities, changing small details of the monuments to reflect either Yankee or Confederate - different style hats, or coats, or whatever.
The town got their monument and was preparing to put it up when someone said "Hey! That's a Yankee!" So they ordered a replacement, and now the original Yankee monument is in the town's museum.
Anyway, I knew someone was going to make the same old tired comment, and sure enough, someone did: That these monuments were put up in the South during Jim Crow or the KKK heydays or during the Civil Rights movement as a way to somehow intimidate Blacks into staying in their place.
But that lie was dispensed with in the very article that had been posted. Both Southern AND NORTHERN communities were putting up these monuments.
So if you're in the racist Southern Poverty Law Center, you apparently think that NORTHERN communities put these monuments up for GOOD reasons - to remember their Fathers and Sons who had fought in the war - and SOUTHERN communities put them up as a way to intimidate Blacks.
As decrepid as I am, ten days with an additional six on Amtrak. I plan to visit the taxpayer financed Slave Museum. And if the stolen statues are not visible, I will to ask to see them. Monument Avenue is stripped of it world class monuments. Will the name be changed to reflect the BLM savagery? BLM Boulevard.
