Scott Bergquist
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

This is the story that needs widespread distribution and retelling. Where are the statues of lynchings, of heroic battles against arresting the father of the family against all evidence, because someone reportedly was “raped by a black man” (such an incident virtually wiped out an Oklahoma black community). The perpetuation of racism took a turn for the worse back in 1881 when President Garfield was assassinated by by a mentally-imbalanced individual, who wanted Garfield to appoint him as ambassador to France.

Rhett McLaughlin is so right about statues being the physical manifestation of a mindset. With the United States becoming a recognized world power, Civil war personages were being forgotten. The mindset of pre-1860 was evaporating. The casting of monuments reminded everyone that 1860 social philosophies were “just and right”.

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