Monument Contemplation

Why not address my view, rather than manufacture a strawman distortion to knock down? We can all be duped, and invest ourselves in a culture or view that misses the mark. But when our mistake comes to light, we need to recognize our error and change our thinking. How about Robert E. Lee led many of our Confederate soldiers to their needless death in defense of the abomination that was slavery. Sorta puts the man sitting on Traveler in his true light.

 

Now why would the deniers want to change the subject from the needless monuments to my limited knowledge? As Christ died to make men holy, let us die to make men free... His truth is marching on.

 

JonC, please refer to the post where I misrepresented your view. It true I will correct it. I try to present the truth.

 

Lots of people engaged in the war effort on both sides, all with different reasons or a differing mix of reasons. My view is that Slavery was the primary cause, and I have spent many hours actually studying the issue.

 

More insults and no discussion of the topic.

Whereas your approach seems to be to hide ignorance with insult. Not impressive or worthwhile.

Folks, returning to the topic, replacing the needless monuments of Confederates with monuments teaching the abomination of slavery took the lives of many Americans, North and South, black and white would be a good thing.

 

Let me see, it would be ok for me to change your "no" to "yes" and put it in quotes to present it as your statement?
But two wrongs do not make a right.

 

Once in boot camp, in our barracks, a commotion occurred and a group of solders grabbed a fellow boot and were dragging him to the back. I will never forget the thief's protest, "he left the wallet on his bunk so he deserved to have it stolen." Now, more than 50 years later, I hear another protest, Van deserved to have his view misrepresented. Go figure.

We can all be duped, and invest ourselves in a culture or view that misses the mark. But when our mistake comes to light, we need to recognize our error and change our thinking. How about Robert E. Lee led many of our Confederate soldiers to their needless death in defense of the abomination that was slavery. Perhaps puts the man sitting on Traveler in his true light

 

Hi Reynolds, the war was not started with the Emancipation Proclamation, it was started when the slave states left the union after Lincoln's election because they thought that was the only way to preserve slavery.

Returning to topic, replacing the needless monuments of Confederates with monuments teaching the abomination of slavery took the lives of many Americans, North and South, black and white would be a good thing.

In my lifetime, smoking was viewed as an appropriate activity. It was not a sin. I carried a pack of cigarettes in my shirt pocket in church. People would light up right after leaving the service. But we changed. I have not smoked in more than 30 years, but my daughter, who grew up with a smoking dad, smokes to this day. My sinful imprint!

And not to put to fine a point on it, but slavery was just as sinful as smoking, andt its imprint still fostered by monuments, continues to harm us all.

 

Hi JonC, this thread is evidence of continuing harm today.
Slavery was the primary cause of the civil war.
Replacing the Confederate monuments with those showing the advocates of human rights would not eliminate the imprint of slavery, but it would be a step in that direction.

Here is short list of replacement monuments
George Lee
Lamar Smith
Willie Edwards Jr
William Lewis Moore
Medgar Evers
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner
Viola Gregg Liuzzo,
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe