30th June 2020, 12:13 PM
I'm totally cool with tearing down and defacing statues of Confederate traitors that were so villainous that they'd march and slaughter fellow Americans to preserve their "right" to enslave other fellow Americans; to torture, rape, murder, breed, sell, tear apart families, and work them into the grave, like cattle, to enrich themselves. Fuck all of them.
I think removing the Roosavelt statue may be overkill, but to be fair, the context is a little different. The issue isn't with Teddy himself, it's that on the same statue, there are a native American and black man walking beneath Teddy, which some take to imply white supremacy. I'm looking at the statue and don't see it, but the larger point about Confederate subhuman traitors still stands. We don't need statues to celebrate these savage sons of bitches. Let people read about them in history books.
What a stain on American history, and a great national humiliation that a substantial population of us still wave that flag, proudly and ignorantly, overlooking the monstrous institution it represents. Yeah, sure, it's all about tyranny and freedom... unless you're a black man... in which case, get back in the cotton fields.
I think removing the Roosavelt statue may be overkill, but to be fair, the context is a little different. The issue isn't with Teddy himself, it's that on the same statue, there are a native American and black man walking beneath Teddy, which some take to imply white supremacy. I'm looking at the statue and don't see it, but the larger point about Confederate subhuman traitors still stands. We don't need statues to celebrate these savage sons of bitches. Let people read about them in history books.
What a stain on American history, and a great national humiliation that a substantial population of us still wave that flag, proudly and ignorantly, overlooking the monstrous institution it represents. Yeah, sure, it's all about tyranny and freedom... unless you're a black man... in which case, get back in the cotton fields.