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Topic	This monument thing is getting way out of hand.
Erik_P 08/20/17 1:56:35 PM #4:	TheNeckbeard posted... http://www.wthr.com/article/man-arrested-for-vandalizing-confederate-monument-in-garfield-park This park is just a mile down the street from me. Why do people want to erase history? I don't see the logic. This particular monument was really a death marker with the names of confederate soldiers and slaves that died at a prison camp on it. This isn't even a monument celebrating some famous general or anything. You're celebrating history of a side that lost a war. Those monuments all went up at the height of Jim Crow laws. They went up because of racism, not to celebrate history. --- #welchingalldayerrday <cite>Erik_P posted [p:885120484] in This monum... [t:75689451]...</cite> <quote><cite>TheNeckbeard posted...</cite> <quote>http://www.wthr.com/article/man-arrested-for-vandalizing-confederate-monument-in-garfield-park This park is just a mile down the street from me. Why do people want to erase history? I don't see the logic. This particular monument was really a death marker with the names of confederate soldiers and slaves that died at a prison camp on it. This isn't even a monument celebrating some famous general or anything.</quote> You're celebrating history of a side that lost a war. Those monuments all went up at the height of Jim Crow laws. They went up because of racism, not to celebrate history. --- #welchingalldayerrday</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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