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We're busily pulling down statues of various slave owners, none of which were erected to honor their slave ownership.
by Clewza313 5y ago
We're busily pulling down statues of various slave owners, none of which were erected to honor their slave ownership.
- psychometry 5y agoWell, no. Many of those (Confederate "heroes") were more principally known for treason, sedition, and waging war in defense of slave ownership rather than their personal predilection toward owning slaves.
- waterhouse 5y agoThomas Jefferson statue pulled down in Portland: https://www.opb.org/news/article/thomas-jefferson-statue-pulled-down-portland-jefferson-high/ https://www.opb.org/news/article/thomas-jefferson-statue-pul...
- psychometry 5y agoCongrats, you found a single counterexample, namely the founding father that was by all accounts the worst human being of the bunch, what with the likely raping and impregnation of his slaves and all. I'm all for replacing TJ statues with ones honoring better human beings.
- gowld 5y agoWhich ones? Most of the statues were specifically erected decades after the Civil War, by KKK and friends, as part of an intimidation campaign against black people and in support of Jim Crow -style laws and resistance to the progress of equal rights legislation.