Negro Libre
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

I think you can subject these things to debate, and in this case, those who defend the confederate statues would lose, because the facts are not in their favor.

I do not think, in most of the cases with the confederacy monuments, that if those who support them and those who do not had to defend them publicly with arguments based on reason, that most of those confederate statues could stand. Of course, it’s clear to us that much of this statue hysteria is based of capitalizing on the racial tension of the time by the left, but in this case the problem isn’t their point, as much as it is their delivery.

Taking down a monument, is just as similar as redefining a past hero as a tyrant, see the popularity of “Cato, a tragedy” at the time of America’s founding, where Caesar is treated with a similar contempt that we hold to Hitler today, around the time of the American Revolution. It does not change history, but rather it challenges and at times changes the aspirations of a people within that culture.

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