Removing the statues will not rewrite history no matter how bad you want to. Slavery was awful; let's learn what lessons we can from sins
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Southern whites haven't learned lesson, they're deeply entrenched in their racism & descendants of slaves shouldn't have to look @ that shit
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Manhattan is more segregated today than Jackson, MS
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I understand your point but I dont want our AA com that suffered slavery in ancestry to see a symbol of it
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Ok. But what about the slavery exhibit at the AA musuem in Wash. DC? Should we remove that bc it reminds us of an awful historical fact?
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actually this is great, a statue in public venue glorifies, a museum is a great place for context & conve
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This in a museum? Fine. On a public monument? Not so much.pic.twitter.com/8erf8zrKN9
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I believe museums can provide context and conversation. We can't do it in the public sphere
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at its peak, 1.6% of Americans owned slaves these monuments have nothing to do with slavery
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Alexander Stephens, the VP of the Confederate States, said their entire movement was based around keeping blacks as second class citizens.
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Lincoln didn't really give a sh!t about slaves, he wanted to ship the freed ones back to Africa
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It's nice to see that you have completely moved the goalposts instead of defending your comment.
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General Lee freed his slaves 20 years before he surrendered the monuments have nothing to do with slavery
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This is one of the statues in New Orleans that has already been taken down last month. Not slavery, just white supremacy.pic.twitter.com/vLW5cfe4fr
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A most teachable moment is about to happen-by removal of such obscenities&monuments to losers. If some Germans put up swastikas u ok w/that?
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I have a feeling these people threatening crane companies aren't doing it for the educational opportunities,
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