Epic win

I grew up in the South and know the type. The less said about those inbred, willfully ignorant, small minded asshats with no grasp of history the better. There list of things that wind me up into a state of incandescent rage is short but those fuckwits are near the top.

Part of the reason they chose that park in Charlottesville was due to an ongoing fight over the statue of Robert E Lee. If you want some small insight in the mind of people who have a completely fucked up view of the civil war I would urge you to read a speech by the Mayor of New Orleans. He spoke after the city won a long running legal battle to remove Confederate War statues from the public parks in New Orleans.

The historic record is clear, the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T. Beauregard statues were not erected just to honor these men, but as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause. This 'cult' had one goal - through monuments and through other means - to rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity. First erected over 166 years after the founding of our city and 19 years after the end of the Civil War, the monuments that we took down were meant to rebrand the history of our city and the ideals of a defeated Confederacy. It is self-evident that these men did not fight for the United States of America, They fought against it. They may have been warriors, but in this cause they were not patriots. These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.

After the Civil War, these statues were a part of that terrorism as much as a burning cross on someone's lawn; they were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city. "

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To literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past. It is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future. History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done. The Civil War is over, and the Confederacy lost and we are better for it. Surely we are far enough removed from this dark time to acknowledge that the cause of the Confederacy was wrong."

Full text here....

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_landrieu_speech_confeder.html