A great video documenting the conception, creation, and display of the Lee monument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0Y59X5jEs&list=PLA6ggvPwft6lemEUYHT0gHPa_aTmjmBJ7, The Civil War Diaries, is a whole series of similar documentaries.
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A great video documenting the conception, creation, and display of the Lee monument.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0Y59X5jEs&list=PLA6ggvPwft6lemEUYHT0gHPa_aTmjmBJ7, The Civil War Diaries, is a whole series of similar documentaries.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
carolina73 (09-13-2021),Mister D (09-13-2021),montana (09-13-2021),slackercruster (09-17-2021)
Several of our historically illiterate members do not understand that the vast majority of these statues were dedicated during the Reconciliation Movement of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. This movement was critical to the development of the USA as something that was actually experienced and felt by northers and southerners alike. The conception of America we have today simply wasn't shared by our ancestors and reconciliation helped allow the America we know to develop.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
carolina73 (09-13-2021),Chris (09-13-2021),RMNIXON (09-13-2021)
I didn't know about the time capsule.
I hope someone photographs the contents and posts them.
I wonder why anyone would go to Richmond now, as a tourist.
The time capsule...
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Mister D (09-14-2021)
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/201...hite-supremacy
A smaller number of monuments, like the one recently toppled in Durham, were indeed funded with public money — but an asterisk must be attached to the word “public.” In 1922, Confederate veterans in Durham persuaded the state legislature to allocate $5,000 of county taxes to fund the monument. No one asked black residents, who were denied the right to vote by Jim Crow laws, whether they supported spending their tax dollars on this public, political statement.Most monuments went up not immediately after the war, but as Southerners put Jim Crow in place — and Northerners gave up on racial justice
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Another member, IIRC, cited the same piece last year when she was arguing that these statues were erected to intimidate blacks and enforce white supremacy. As I explained then and above, they had nothing to do with Jim Crow. In reality, blacks were simply be ignored because unification and healing was a greater priority for the state. We can argue about that but the anyone wishing to discuss it should familiarize himself with the historical context.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist