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I don't find these articles terribly convincing. It's typical for monuments to be built decades after the event they commemorate. The world war 2 memorial in DC
by Houshalter 9y ago
I don't find these articles terribly convincing. It's typical for monuments to be built decades after the event they commemorate. The world war 2 memorial in DC wasn't built until 2004.
- yrro 9y agoI find it difficult to believe that it's just a coincidence that most of these monuments were erected during the eras of Jim Crow, and then the heyday of the KKK, and later still during the Civil Rights era.
- Houshalter 9y agoThere is basically no correlation whatsoever: https://i.redditmedia.com/IE4gFFzTylcD63F5V9xixn0Nh4ESSuWVoKAVx7i1QMc.jpg?w=1024&s=8d3a6f2ac337efb55ca9494f3bd81a22 https://i.redditmedia.com/IE4gFFzTylcD63F5V9xixn0Nh4ESSuWVoK...
- yrro 9y agoBollocks: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story-of-all-those-confederate-statues/ http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story...