The Worlds Greatest Strawman:Confederate Monuments

The Confederate Flag and Confederate Monuments are being used to absolutely bludgen America's Caucasian community and give credence to the notion that America is "systematically" racist.

Yet, like many of the political weapons deployed against Republicans, the Right, and "White" people in general, the Confederate Monuments were literally constructed by Democrats.

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“Eventually they started to build [Confederate] monuments,” he says. “The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” 

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I've often wondered how we as a country wound up with so many statues and monuments (over 700) commemorating the LOSING side of the Civil War.

The simple answer is, that many of those CSA leaders had been active politically, as prominent Democrats, prior to their insurrection (antibellum) against the United States and many of the returned during reconstruction.

After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln the Democrats largely guided reconstruction and ultimately it was Democrats that dominated the Jim Crow era and the construction of all the CSA monuments.

The truth is, America does have a racist history and the Monuments came into existence during and due to the darkest times in our history.

Perhaps the reason Democrats now lead the charge to erase those monuments is because Democrats dont want you to realize that it's THEIR legacy, ole dixie is DEMOCRAT Legacy, not white America, not Republicans who defeated the CSA, ended slavery, ended Jim Crow and passed Civil rights...

The monuments were brought to us by Democrats, Democrats can take them back now so long as we all know whose legacy they are really toppling