re: What is the balance between preserving Confederate history and progressing forward?

We had balance until the left exploited the Dillon Roof shooting because they are historically ignorant.

Most of the statues and monuments our SJW Taliban had torn down were erected in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as part of a post Reconstruction healing period.

Assholes born in 1987 didn’t understand that because they are fricking retarded.

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Most of the statues and monuments our SJW Taliban had torn down were erected in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as part of a post Reconstruction healing period.

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False. Most were erected between the 1920s and 1950s as a not-so-pleasant reminder to Southern blacks that the confederacy may have ended, but the beliefs behind it hadn't. This was the period of Jim Crow, KKK, and the Civil Rights movement. The messages or, as you call them, memorials, were intentionally sat in the middle of Southern towns to remind those ni****s that they better know their fricking roles.

If a community understand the REAL reason behind the confederate statue erected on their town square in 1953 and STILL want it there, more power to them. Unfortunately, most think these are 150 year old statues truly serving as memorials instead of the symbols of hate that they truly are.

I think all history should be preserved if for no other reason than to recognize it and learn from it

Well, the average southern soldier didn’t give a crap about slavery and was mostly fighting to keep union soldiers from burning their cities and farms to the ground. These monuments are not “rewriting” history. They are honoring the dead. They’re basically markers for mass graves because so many people were killed in the fighting that they often couldn’t bury them all properly. The vast majority of those fighting were drafted. They had no choice but to defend their home from an invading army. You can argue the northern army weren’t invaders, but damn it if they didn’t behave like one. They imprisoned leaders and dissidents, they raped women, they pillaged and razed cities and towns, they plundered farms, etc. to the average southerner, they just wanted to keep their families safe. To paint them all as villains is reductionist thinking of the worst kind. Let the dead rest, and let the monuments to them stand so we can learn from them and not repeat the senseless killing that nearly depopulated entire regions.

If you think this movement to erase monuments ends here, you’re dead wrong. They’re already going after revolutionary war figures, veteran cemeteries, anti-bellum homes, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, etc. This is what communist agit-prop is all about. They start off with a position that seems somewhat reasonable and justified. They beg for an inch, take an inch, then another inch, and another inch, until they’re asking for absurdity but there’s no power left to deny them. The current monuments being debated now are simply seen as a line in the sand. They renamed a road on LSU’s campus which was named after a confederate soldier despite the fact that after the war, he was a professor at the university for decades. It is absurd what they’re doing all over the country to whitewash history and remove anything painful or controversial.

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New Orleans is very black it shouldn’t be surprised that people aren’t thrilled their city is celebrating the generals that fought to keep their relatives in chains.

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Go to the corner of Franklin Ave & N Galvez, show the first black person you see a photo of Robert E Lee and ask them to identify who it is and what he did in history.

I've got a crisp $100 for you if they answer one of those questions even close to correct.

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I understand why people want to preserve some of it, but ultimately the Confederacy lost. I've got about as much sympathy for their cause as I do for Nazi Germany. The only difference is we don't still occupy Nazi Germany.

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It's great how people put current political and societal norms on a society from 160 years prior.

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Go to the corner of Franklin Ave & N Galvez, show the first black person you see a photo of Robert E Lee and ask them to identify who it is and what he did in history.

I've got a crisp $100 for you if they answer one of those questions even close to correct.

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go to Pearl River or Hackberry and do the same thing and the answers won't be that much different.

trashy hillbillies are just as poor and ignorant as hood rat black people.

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I like how you compare what the United States was doing before and during the Civil War to Nazi Germany. Ya know, one of the most ruthlessly brutal regimes in human history? Surpassed probably only by Stalinist Russia and Maoist China.

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I'm comparing two regimes that were defeated handily by the US and others. I'm not comparing their actions.

Banning slavery was the last straw. It was basically the north sanctioning the south and trying to collapse their economy. The war was about money and not trying to free slaves.