The Confederacy has long been a controversial topic in the United States. While the state has long been associated with racism and slavery, many modern southerners view the Confederacy as an important part of southern heritage.
Until recently, relics of the Confederate States of America have been allowed throughout the south for historical purposes, but in today’s politically correct climate, many of those monuments have been forcibly removed.
Last year, statues of Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, were removed from locals parks in Virgina. The contractor who removed the statues found his Lamborghini torched in response.
Now, more statues of the former general are coming down across the state — at huge cost.
Read about the latest Robert E. Lee statue to fall on the next page:
Should be spending that money on other better projects.
Trump should buy it and put it next to his flag along with all the early presidents and a statue of Christ talking to all of them
B******t
You can’t erace history by removing a statue…How very foolish to even try.
The Libturd Snowflakes won’t be satisfied until they destroy our culture completely.
RIDICULOUS!!!
The Statue is part of American history …..
Stop caving to the wishes of a few….
The question that people should be asking is…WHY…are the democrats and it is overwhelming democrats leading the push to remove traces of the Civil War….WHY…BECAUSE WHAT HAPPEN DOES NOT FIT THE AGENDA THEY ARE PUSHING…GOOGLE BLACK CONFEDERATES AND OTHER MINORITIES IN THE WAR OF AGGRESSION…somehow the democrats have turned history around and convinced many anything connected to the word “CONFEDERATE” is racist, against blacks, and was the cause of the war….not true
This is a little lesson on Lincoln, slavery and the Civil War for those who’s knowledge of what they think they know comes mostly from what they on inaccurate and biased TV. All of the below can be easily verified with a little research.
The slavery issue was settled before the fighting in the war started. The NORTHERN legislators passed the Corwim Amendment that guaranteed the practice of slavery would be legalized and allowed to continue uninterrupted and unchallenged. The north didn’t want to end slavery because it was making them rich. Slaves could only be imported at northern ports. At this time their owners importing the slaves were charged an import taxed by the US government. When they were sold they were taxed by the US again. Then before they could be transported south the new owners had to pay another tax or tariff to the US government. The north was making a killing off these taxes.
In Lincoln’s inaugural speech he said he never campaigned to free slaves. He went on to say he never intended to free the slaves and saw no need to change his views now that he was president. Lincoln was an atheist and he disliked blacks. He said that they were only good for basic labor. After the war he said that if there had been any other way he could have won without the slaves being freed he would have done it. He and a lot of northern politicians wanted the blacks removed from America.
The war was over state rights. Basically the northern states and the government was treating the southern states the same way that England treated the colonies. Lincoln said exactly what the war was over. “I will not recognize the Confederation. Doing so would mean that the US government would loose the revenue (over $300,000,000 annually) from the southern states and their natural resources. Without this income the government would collapse. Several northern presidents after Lincoln made a point to say that the north invaded the south for these reasons. Research Woodrow Wilson. He was a history scholar with first hand information about these facts.
Less than 2% of the southern population owned slaves. Would you fight and give your life so some rich person could own another? No, and neither would your average southerner. They didn’t fight for the rich man. They fought because they did not like being pushed around and abused by the government. One of the biggest slave owners in the south was a free black. Even other free blacks owned slaves as did Native Americans. A lot of blacks fought for the south in the war (5 times as many that fought for the north) both FREE and slave. Again would you fight to stay a slave if it was as bad as history says? No. Just like today you had a few crazy people that like to abuse their slaves. Most were treated good and some even like family. Robert E Lee freed his slaves years before the war. They refused to leave him. Only when the union was confiscating his property after the war and they were forced to leave did they go. The north resented this closeness. One northern politician said that the worse thing that could happen in this country was for a white man to rise to a position of importance that started his life “sucking on a$#%&!@*s breast”.
There is an old saying that history is written by the victors. It’s true in this case. After the war the north constantly changed and distorted the facts in order to make their cause appear rightous. You need to read a few unbiased books and not believe everything you see on TV (where most people learn what little they know). Go to “black confederates and other minorities in the war of northern aggression” on Facebook to learn much more.
There has to be more people in that town in favor of keeping it than removing it get your asses out there and stop this.