What was the purpose of Monuments to the Confederacy?

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Hawkeye10

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Obviously I cant trust anything that comes from a University or a journalist, and the historians have recently become obviously too political/agenda driven, so I thought I would ask here. I know that there were at least two waves, so perhaps the motive changed.

My wife says that they were intending to send a message to blacks to behave, they were pointing out to blacks of the time that they had it a whole lot better than they and their ancestors used to, so no sniveling about such things as "white only" and "black only".

And maybe too things could move back in that direction again if there was too much trouble from the blacks.

My wife is UN trained in Genocide but she could be wrong.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Obviously I cant trust anything that comes from a University or a journalist, and the historians have recently become obviously too political/agenda driven, so I thought I would ask here. I know that there were at least two waves, so perhaps the motive changed.

My wife says that they were intending to send a message to blacks to behave, they were pointing out to blacks of the time that they had it a whole lot better than they and their ancestors used to, so no sniveling about such things as "white only" and "black only".

And maybe too things could move back in that direction again if there was too much trouble from the blacks.

My wife is UN trained in Genocide but she could be wrong.
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What monuments?
 
I find it fascinating that I almost never hear anyone wondering about this, or explaining what happened and why, and alarming.

How can we talk about what to tear down and what to not when we dont even seem to know why they are there?
 
They are designed to remind people that the hate and bigotry that caused the civil war has not died. The southerners and haters still hate blacks and are proud of those who fought to destroy the union to keep slavery.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I find it fascinating that I almost never hear anyone wondering about this, or explaining what happened and why, and alarming.

How can we talk about what to tear down and what to not when we dont even seem to know why they are there?
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Most of us are more knowledgeable than you. Ever consider that you're the one who is ignorant?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Obviously I cant trust anything that comes from a University or a journalist, and the historians have recently become obviously too political/agenda driven, so I thought I would ask here. I know that there were at least two waves, so perhaps the motive changed.

My wife says that they were intending to send a message to blacks to behave, they were pointing out to blacks of the time that they had it a whole lot better than they and their ancestors used to, so no sniveling about such things as "white only" and "black only".

And maybe too things could move back in that direction again if there was too much trouble from the blacks.

My wife is UN trained in Genocide but she could be wrong.
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The real reason the statues were built during desegregation, as opposed to during or directly after the Civil War, was because they were built to proclaim that those cities still wanted segregation.
Personally, I think the reason is kind of unimportant. The fact is they're there now and most people in those cities don't see them as symbols of segregation.
 
StoneByStone said:
The real reason the statues were built during desegregation, as opposed to during or directly after the Civil War, was because they were built to proclaim that those cities still wanted segregation.
Personally, I think the reason is kind of unimportant. The fact is they're there now and most people in those cities don't see them as symbols of segregation.
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Symbols of racism.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
My wife says that they were intending to send a message to blacks to behave, they were pointing out to blacks of the time that they had it a whole lot better than they and their ancestors used to, so no sniveling about such things as "white only" and "black only".
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Can you imagine another country filling their town squares with monuments to their enemy? Why not have a bunch of Hitler statues everywhere?

When Blacks started agitating to vote, Neo-Confederates started putting up Confederate/KKK Flags in front of statehouses as a threat to Blacks to stay out. The Stone Mountain monument is not even really a monument to the Confederacy, but rather to the founding of the modern KKK at Stone Mountain.

There is some regional pride, and hatred for America, but a lot of it is racism.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I find it fascinating that I almost never hear anyone wondering about this, or explaining what happened and why, and alarming.

How can we talk about what to tear down and what to not when we dont even seem to know why they are there?
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Whether it be a town, city, state or nation, why are any monuments erected? Not a tough question there, bud.
 
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