Why not just replace all the Lee and Forrest statues with Grant and Sherman statues?
>Preserving History: Check
>Not Glorifying Racist Traitors: Check
It's win/win
>>137242024
>he thinks History is only made up of the "good guys"
kill yourself
How about we replace them with Himmler statues to really piss em off
>>137242024
lee wasnt racist
>>137242024
All statues to these Yankee war criminals must be removed.
If the South cannot commemorate it's heroes; then the North cannot memorialise its villains.
>>137242024
We should replace them with statues of the
1. First slave owner (black)
2. First slave shipper (Jew)
3. Guys who killed Malcom x, who wanted separation of races (Islam)
There's all the fucking diversity you'll ever need and all historically true
History shouldn't make you comfortable. Only fools try to erase it.
>>137242024
Hitler should be removed from the history books. I mean come on he was an asshole and he fucking lost...who gives a shit about some asshole that didn't win why should I care?
>>137242024
>Traitors
Name one person convicted of treason
>>137242024
Similarly, how come the Scots get a William Wallace statue in spite of him being drawn and quartered for treason?
As it turns out, national mythologies go a ways toward soothing the wounds of defeat.
>>137242024
If Lee, etc. "belong in a museum" because they're history, how do Sherman and Grant not too? One's a war criminal and the other a drunk, slave-owning shitty President.
>>137242024
The Sherman statue in NYC is pretty awesome
MLK was a misogynist let's get that fuck off of street signs
>>137242024
the south wasnt racist. democrats in the north voted to keep slavery. without republican votes, they would still be slaves.
Wasn't Sherman and Grant huge participants in the Indian wars?
>sips fire water
don't give them one inch.