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People acting like confederate monuments are treasured historical artworks are full of shit. Most are hack Jim-Crow-era propaganda pieces.
Some are from as late as the 1960s. They're just anti-black, anti-Civil Rights monuments.
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A paragraph about the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the group of historians that commissioned the politically neutral Durham statue.pic.twitter.com/nFwi85UxeS
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Seems like a lot of the 1960s ones were put up at schools and public Universities.
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When schools were being desegregated.
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Germany has no monuments to Hitler, but somehow they still remember him.
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2010 one went up in Arizona...
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Why?
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What do the plaques say? Do they say the date erected and people just don't read it? Or do they pretend to be older?
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Just because its a statue doesn't mean that its praising it.
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