The statue doesn’t say much about the civil war. But it does say alot about the Jim Crow era in which it was built. Personally I think this is even more important because the Jim Crow era is far less well understood by most Americans, and far more relevant to the race issues we see today.
Exactly this. Plus, unfortunately, there are plenty of Confederate monuments and statues erected way after the Civil War whose sole purpose was “scare those black people into knowing their place.” Some of those can find new homes in museums displaying the history of racism (with added context), but we can’t preserve all of them. So melt the rest down and reuse them in ways that uplift people instead of oppressing them.
It’s absolutely history but just not Civil War history. This is the Charlottesville statue and it’s iconic of our contemporary far right nationalist problem. Imagine things like this being a part of an exhibit laying out the turmoil our country is going through.
Edit: A lot of key pieces of history are missing because people didn’t look to the future. I think some of it should have been carefully stored in a basement somewhere. Out of sight for at least 20 years.
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Propoganda + Time = history.
The statue doesn’t say much about the civil war. But it does say alot about the Jim Crow era in which it was built. Personally I think this is even more important because the Jim Crow era is far less well understood by most Americans, and far more relevant to the race issues we see today.
Exactly this. Plus, unfortunately, there are plenty of Confederate monuments and statues erected way after the Civil War whose sole purpose was “scare those black people into knowing their place.” Some of those can find new homes in museums displaying the history of racism (with added context), but we can’t preserve all of them. So melt the rest down and reuse them in ways that uplift people instead of oppressing them.
It’s absolutely history but just not Civil War history. This is the Charlottesville statue and it’s iconic of our contemporary far right nationalist problem. Imagine things like this being a part of an exhibit laying out the turmoil our country is going through.
Edit: A lot of key pieces of history are missing because people didn’t look to the future. I think some of it should have been carefully stored in a basement somewhere. Out of sight for at least 20 years.