Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days
The Lost Cause movement, which recast rebel traitors as morally righteous warriors defending states’ rights and spread the false belief that slavery was benevolent, is evident in the memorial’s bronze panels. A weeping Black woman, described by cemetery historians as a stereotypical “mammy,” clutches the baby of a White officer, and a camp servant dutifully follows his enslaver toward battle.
They are Americans, even if they were on the wrong side of history. It is something to remember and think about it. I would not put anything new, but I would prefer old historical memorial on cemetery to stay.
That’s a good point. One nice thing about visiting Germany are all the statues of hitler they’ve kept. Real important to remember history with statues, both sides.
Edit: p.s. most confederate statues were erected for political reasons with money raised by the daughters of the confederacy. If you think their only motive was to celebrate brave soldiers, both sides, you missed a few wiki articles.
For those wondering, outside of the museums, this is (some of) how WWII is memorialised in Berlin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Wache
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_with_her_Dead_Son
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Memorial_Church#Spire_and_memorial_hall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Cross_of_Nails
I will hand it to the Germans: They said, “this is our shame to bear and we will make sure our great-grandchildren know this is our shame and never forget it” and they did a pretty great job.
They were, quite literally, not Americans.
They were Confederates.
Robert E. Lee opposed monuments like this for these exact reasons. They were put up by post-war pro-slavery efforts to romanticize and justify the South. And looks like it worked on you.
They were not Americans. They seceded from the United States of America and did it so they could keep up the institution of slavery. And they died traitors. Fuck them and this memorial that was put up in 1914, long after anyone involved would have died of old age.
They were traitors. They are dead traitors. Romanticizing those who betrayed their country to fight to preserve brutal chattel slavery is what keeps much of the south on the wrong side of history to this day.
naw, that would be admitting there was any value to that memorial, and there is not.
there is no value in celebrating the losers of a movement to enslave human beings.
Are you celebrating on cemeteries? We have very different views what they are about.
Whose grave is this memorializing and why was it put up to memorialize them in 1914?
do pedants support racism? please carry on
It wasn’t intended as a memorial, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy
Could we add a historical urinal over top of these “historical” memorials if they are going to stay?
Try that sentence again, Russian propagandist.
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