Where are the Confederate monuments now?
KALI HOLLOWAY
AUGUST 18, 2019 10:59AM (UTC)
According to the latest SPLC tally, there are roughly 780 Confederate monuments standing across the U.S. That’s a staggering number of tributes to the losing side of a treasonous insurrection; a war that ended not with a treaty, but with the South’s full surrender. More importantly, those statues honor people who fought for a nation founded to preserve black enslavement — a fact enshrined in its Constitution, its member states’ declarations of reasons for secession, its vice president’s most famous speech. It’s no wonder that white supremacists of every stripe — from the neo-Nazis who occupied Charlottesville to the man who currently occupies the executive office — are so fiercely defensive of them.
As Trump and the violent racists in his base contribute to an atmosphere of fear and hatred, one in which white racial terror violence is on the rise, the need to take down Confederate monuments has gained even greater urgency. Since the 2015 white supremacist murder of nine black parishioners in Charleston — a horrific meeting of America’s gun and race problems — 114 monuments have been removed in cities from Brooklyn to Durham to Dallas. Yes, that’s a mere fragment of the total number of Confederate monuments. But communities across the country are currently embroiled in fights to remove white supremacist symbols from their public spaces ...
... There are 10 Army bases in the South named for Confederate soldiers ...
... The statue of Confederate General Albert Pike in D.C. stands on National Park Service grounds ...
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