Originally posted by Adrift
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No one is saying that history needs to be erased or forgotten, but statues are erected to things in which we take pride. I do not see why we should be taking pride in honoring these men, who fought to defend the cause of slavery. They belong in museums, where they can serve as reminders to our history, not in the center of our city parks and public byways, where they can remind everyone going by that some people still pay tribute to the cause of slavery.
I realize there are different view points about this, but I have the following observation to make about them: if the whirte supremacists and neo-nazis of our country can be so fired about about preserving these things, does that not tell us a little something about what they represent to many people?
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