New Decandsor wrote:San Lumen wrote:Baltimore has now become the next municipality to announce they are going to remove confederate monuments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in ... a14d4e2627
Some on the city council have called for the monuments to not only be removed but be destroyed.
Im very conflicted about this. On the one hand these were people who fought against the country and fought a rebellion but it is a part of history and history should never be forgotten.
But on the other they are memorializing people who fought against what the country stands for. People like Justice Roger Taney whom one of the monuments in Baltimore is of authored the infamous Dred Scott decision. A bust or statue of him should not be destroyed as it was the Dred Scott decision that helped lead to the civil war.
If places want to remove them they should be put in museums but certainly not destroyed.
What's your thoughts NSG on this contentious issue?
Jesus Christ. It's been a hundred and fifty years and people still can't get over this? They definitely shouldn't be destroyed, if they wish to take them down, they should be placed in a museum. Continuously seeing people wanting to take down these monuments all the time just tells me that people can't get over it and move forward.
Jim Crow laws were still in place in these states until 40 years ago. Many of these states see deep-seeded institutional racism in them. These Confederate Monument empower and embolden racist Confederate apologist nostalgia, and legitimizes them politically.
You saying it's over means you do not fucking get it. It's not over. There are people who are still wistful about the Confederacy, and are apologists about the purpose of it. Hell, there are many in the South who actually believe the racist shit that the Confederacy was founded on. And these monuments legitimize those people in the public and political world.
Imagery and messages fucking matter, and these cities are laudable for sending the clearest message they can that this bullshit is unacceptable, that the Confederacy is not some wistful thing to look back at with nostalgia, and there is no room for racist apologists in the Modern day.