re: Thoughts on Mayor Landrieu's speech before the removal of the monuments?

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why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks

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Probably because we tend to build monuments to people, not items. If we were going to have monuments to slave ships, then they would have to be in the states with the companies that operated the slave ships. Here's a hint: they weren't from the South.

If a group of people want certain markers, then they need to collect private donations for its cost. No one is saying they can't do that. The motivation behind tearing down the monuments is the same one as lowering required test scores to make the dumb & lazy kids feel better. If you can't build yourself up, then tear down those that are more successful.