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The resolution calling for the immediate destruction of all Confederate Monuments in #Baltimore (Original Post) L. Coyote Aug 2017 OP
Good, glorification of racism is not worth preserving. Barack_America Aug 2017 #1
This is gonna be a Kodak moment. roamer65 Aug 2017 #2
Only took 150 years but take your time Juliusseizure Aug 2017 #3
Actually, Joy Reid said many monuments were created in the 1960s as reaction to civil rights laws lostnfound Aug 2017 #4
This says that 35 were built AFTER 2000 in North Carolina alone! lostnfound Aug 2017 #5

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
1. Good, glorification of racism is not worth preserving.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 12:39 AM
Aug 2017

Monuments of the fight against it are. That's the only way it should be remembered, an evil that was defeated.

roamer65

(36,747 posts)
2. This is gonna be a Kodak moment.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 01:25 AM
Aug 2017

I bet there will be cheering crowds, just like when Soviet junk went down in the old Warsaw Pact.

lostnfound

(16,189 posts)
4. Actually, Joy Reid said many monuments were created in the 1960s as reaction to civil rights laws
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 07:52 AM
Aug 2017

Which puts them in an even worse light.

The one in Charlottesville was built 50 years after civil war.

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