Still think those Confederate monuments are all about heritage and history? Here’s a Vox video by Carlos Waters that uses a timeline to show the relationship of spurts of monument erections and historical events. There’s definitely a pattern here …
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There is a difference between celebrating the Confederacy and honoring the men who actually fought for it. It is no different than not celebrating the Vietnam War but honoring the men who fought in it. The leaders and generals of the Confederacy were fighting to preserve slavery, in fact it was the only thing that prevented the war from ending sooner because it was the single issue they wouldn’t negotiate. The Confederate leaders were men of great wealth built on the backs of enslaved Africans and they knew it and didn’t want to give it up. The generals that fought for the Confederacy were just such men or their relatives and were different than the men who actually closed with the enemy and died in large numbers. The conscripts had no more choice than most of the slaves about their lives. Bringing down the statues that honor the Confederacy and its’ leaders is justice. Condemning the men who actually fought is no more just than condemning the young men who went to Vietnam. We went because our government told us it was in our national defense against Communism and the right thing to do. We didn’t know any better and most of the Civil War conscripts didn’t own slaves and never would. They went because they were called and it was the law. We are currently making war against a 3rd world nation where the majority of citizens don’t read or write. I believe it is unjust. The men and women going are following orders. The graduates of our military academies should probably know better but they took an oath. Do we condemn them? The point is assigning blame and judging are not that easy to do with justice.