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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 98: Riyadh It and Weep |
| Eddv 05/23/17 4:34:11 PM #387: | The argument that confederate statues accurately memorialize the confederacy falls flat when you realize the only knes memorialized besides lee were the violently anti-reconstruction ones. Anyone who collaborated with the Grant Administration was scrubbed from history or scapegoated. General Longstreet was probably the single most important person in the confederacy after Lee and possibly Jefferson Davis and yet according to southern memory he was the guy who lost the war or just didnt exist. He has like 3 statues total - both erectrd in the 90s after Tom Berengers depiction of the guy was so wildly popular that people began wondering why there were statues of people like Porter Alexander and not Longstreet. His cardinal sin - he was a Republican after the war. --- Board 8's Voice of Reason http://i.imgur.com/chXIw06.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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