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Ann_Stanton
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I am confused. If communities take their columns back to their own communities, then there will not be a monument left. What would be the point?
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Isca
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I’ve read a lot about this memorial, I think it’s moving and beautiful in its starkness. May the souls of all those who were murdered rest in peace.
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mrsdizzyd
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The communities take replicas back.
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mrsdizzyd
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This memorial means a great deal to me. I have an ancestor who was lynch in the 1930s.
The terror experience by my family was so great that my aunt (he was her 1st cousin) was afraid to even talk about it for fear that word might get back to the families of the perpetrators. Mind you, this was 70 years later when I was interviewing her for a school project!
The terror experience by my family was so great that my aunt (he was her 1st cousin) was afraid to even talk about it for fear that word might get back to the families of the perpetrators. Mind you, this was 70 years later when I was interviewing her for a school project!
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Ann_Stanton
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Thank you for that information. I thought the actual piece was going back. This lead me to think there would be no memorial after a while.
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mrsdizzyd
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So, it’s OK when white Americans erect memorials that reflect their priorities, but when black Americans erect memorials that reflect their priorities it’s racist?exnihilo:
I concur.
These memorials in today’s political climate serve to fuel racial hatred - racial hatred directed towards whites.
I don’t like how whites are being consistently publicly demonized. I don’t like it one bit.
America has a serious problem with black people who are deeply racist towards whites.
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Spyridon
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No, it is not okay for anyone to erect a memorial which demonizes another race and fuels racial hatred and bitterness.
I would protest just as much if a group of whites wanted to put up a memorial demonizing blacks for stealing jobs or taking welfare or whatever racist accusation.
I’m not opposed to this memorial in theory. I’m opposed to it with regards to the current racial climate of America.
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mrsdizzyd
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Demonize? Telling the truth about over 4,000 racially motivated murders that occurred but were swept under the rug = demonizing all whites?
Silly me, I get it now. we should continue to ignore this history because it is the PC thing to do. Got it… my mistake…
Silly me, I get it now. we should continue to ignore this history because it is the PC thing to do. Got it… my mistake…
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exnihilo
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What memorials have been erected that reflect white American’s priorities?
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mrsdizzyd
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The vast majority of all memorials erected in the US?
If you want a specific and culturally relevant example you can look to the many many many conferderate memorials in this country…
If you want a specific and culturally relevant example you can look to the many many many conferderate memorials in this country…
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exnihilo
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How do you figure that?
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mrsdizzyd
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Honey, if I have to explain to you how confederate memorials reflect the priorities of the people that erected them we have nothing to talk about.
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exnihilo
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How do they reflect the priorities of ‘White’ people? It seems you divide up people by race and determine that policies of the government reflect those people. The Confederate memorials reflect the sympathies of southerners, not White people. They mostly reflect the sympathies of southerners who had relatives that died in the war. That isn’t all White people and it isn’t no Black people.
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mrsdizzyd
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I’m not the one doing the dividing. These were divided times. Many conferderate monuments were erected during the Jim Crow era by segregationists ( literally divided times). In the South, African Americans were disenfranchised, so they did not have any elected officials representing them. In many cases the KKK was intimately and publicly involved in the creation and dedication of these memorials. In the era of Jim Crow and unmitigated racial violence/lynching, I can guarantee you that there weren’t many African Americans who felt that these memorials were for them.
I can tell that you really believe what you are saying. And, if you do, there is little I’m going to say on this forum that is going to change your mind.
I’ll say a prayer for you. Enjoy the rest of your day.
I can tell that you really believe what you are saying. And, if you do, there is little I’m going to say on this forum that is going to change your mind.
I’ll say a prayer for you. Enjoy the rest of your day.
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Jump4Joy
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White people were not lynched at the same rate as blacks in the south. How is this racist towards white people? I’m always interested by the views expressed on CAF, more reason for me to not align myself with the conservative party.
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Jump4Joy
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That’s not the equivalent of unlawful lynchings of innocent black people for centuries in the USA.
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RandomAlias
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It’s not demonizing another race. It’s not necessarily fueling racial hatred and bitterness. One can remember evil in order to reject it and reconcile. See for example the Holocaust memorials. No one is demonizing the German people. We are saying “Never again.”
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exnihilo
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This was over a hundred years ago. Many of those monuments are monuments to the dead which were privately built. You don’t have a problem with people putting up private memorials, right?
The better question is what recent memorials reflect ‘White’ people? If there were injustices in the past it doesn’t seem to me prudent to create injustices today by making a memorial about lynchings suggest Whites weren’t lynched.
Because the memorial apparently purposefully excludes Whites. It wrongly suggests lynching was only done to Blacks. It doesn’t matter if more Blacks were lynched than Whites.
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TheAmazingGrace
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You tryna get rid of history brah?
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