Traci Thompson
Aug 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Hypocrisy is also saying we value tolerance and diversity, but in practice not including Southerners. You say you believe monuments were put up to honor the dead, but then say you don’t care. Yet you do care about slavery. If you are going to care about some of it, why not all of it? This is why we are far from equality. The war was not only about slavery, and again, a good historical education will make that clear. You are right, many people ignore huge chunks of history, and that there were other factors than slavery involved is one of them; Northerners can only seem to see one side of the story as well. Let’s try to look at a broader picture. Tearing down monuments put up by grieving women for veterans is not going to tear down lies and hypocrisies.

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