Feds should put Confederate monuments in museums

[struggle4progress]

BY STEVE GLAZER
SEPTEMBER 06, 2017 2:00 PM

I am re-introducing a resolution urging Congress to take down monuments to Confederate leaders, and rename federal buildings, parks, roadways or other federally owned property that bear Confederate leaders’ names ...

In Senate Joint Resolution 14, I don’t propose to erase our history. Rather, the monuments should be placed in museums, where they can be viewed in context ...

Today, hatemongers seek refuge in the shadows of Confederate symbols. These statues and memorials should collect dust in museums, where they can be seen .. as leaders of a failed system of racial superiority that still rings far too loud.

Steve Glazer, an Orinda <CA> Democrat, represents the 7th Senate District ...

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article171359452.html

[liberalmuse]

1. Similar to the Holocaust museum.

We need to remember this racist part of our history. We need to clearly label that it was/is wrong to enslave and treat human beings as less than what they are, less than the rest of us. This nation needs to understand and take a clear stand against racism. Most of us are racist, but most of us are appalled at the fact we might be unknowingly racist. This is why defining racism is so important. This is why understanding what happens when a segment of the population treats another segment of the population as "inferior". You get exactly what we are seeing now.

[LonePirate]

2. Don't have to worry about the deplorables seeing them in museums. They never visit them.

[Hortensis]

3. Agree provisionally. Would hope it contained some flexibiity for special cases.

In other words, keep wisdom handicapped black-or-white reactionaries out of the decisionmaking processes.

We can and should take down all monuments erected in glorification of white supremacy, but we can't erase slavery or all the people who lived that era from our history altogether and of course shouldn't try.

I have a wonderful old book documenting historic southern gardens into which a writer peculiarly slipped two very off-topic references to the need for the KKK to maintain order. I won't be burning it or donating it to "gather dust" in a museum.

[Coventina]

4. I agree with this. n/t