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Trump ‘Sad’ Over Removal of ‘Our Beautiful Statues’ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-confederate-statues.html
So there it is. Are they beautiful statues glorifying heroism of those fighting on the Confederate side as Alt-POTUS claims, or, are the statues signs of racial hatred.
More broadly do we need a middle ground of museums with these statues for history's sake? Or, should we, like Russians after the fall of the Soviet Union, rip the disgusting things out and carry them to a dump heap?
Most of the statues were erected in the 1890s, as Jim Crow laws were being established, and in the 1950s, during a period of Southern resistance to the civil rights movement.
So there it is. Are they beautiful statues glorifying heroism of those fighting on the Confederate side as Alt-POTUS claims, or, are the statues signs of racial hatred.
More broadly do we need a middle ground of museums with these statues for history's sake? Or, should we, like Russians after the fall of the Soviet Union, rip the disgusting things out and carry them to a dump heap?