110 Confederate monuments removed since 2015

From Nola.com LINK

The article is based on a report from Moris Dees' and Joseph Levin's SPLC and authored by Heidi Beirich who is pictured below. Link to report



The report, titled "WHOSE HERITAGE?", identifies more than 1,700 remaining memorials for removal. Link to Map



They have also published a comprehensive set of spreadsheets on google docs that includes data on removed and remaining memorials. Notice one of the names included is US President Zachary Taylor who died before the Civil War began. Link to Google Docs doc



I'm a native Midwesterner with no real family roots or history in the South, my family fought for the Union, but even I find this shite disgusting. "Whose heritage?", even the title is insulting.

These people want to erase our collective history and the inclusion of Zachary Taylor shows that the Confederate monuments are just the beginning.

The whole thing presuposes two points:

1. The War and the Confederacy were about Slavery. We can argue all day about this but it is irrelevant on the personal level, like any war the average Soldier cared very little for the macro political machinations and motivations of the elite. The average Southerner was not fighting rabidly to defend Slavery, he was fighting to defend his neighbors, his home, and his family.

2. These monuments are memorials to that cause of Slavery and to racist Villains which is also false. Look at some of these monuments they list...

Monument to the Women of South Carolina on the Capitol grounds in Columbia:



Monument to Confederate War Dead on the Capitol Grounds in Raleigh NC:



Are you kidding me? With how traumatic the war was, how many people died, we're saying that that loss cannot be remembered? Those people can't be mourned? Their sacrifice can't be recognized?

Screw the SPLC and anyone that supports these people.