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RE: those Confederate monuments
I was leafing through a magazine this morning when I came across a one-sided article re: those monuments. So I decided not to read it.
But knowing that some members (and guests) want to read about this topic, I decided to let you know about this article.
Title: "The Costs of the Confederacy"
Authors: Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler
Magazine: (Print) issue of Smithsonian for December, 2018, pages 54 - 63, 76 -78. (I assume that it's online.)
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Here are some comments that are prominently displayed in the article:
P. 55: "In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that distort U.S. history and perpetuate racist ideology."
P. 57: "The state is giving the stamp of approval to these lost cause ideas, and the money is a symbol of that approval. What does that say to black citizens?"
P. 60: "Monuments to the 'Lost Cause' will prove monuments of folly," [Frederick] Douglass wrote in 1870. "It is a needless record of stupidity and wrong."
I was leafing through a magazine this morning when I came across a one-sided article re: those monuments. So I decided not to read it.
But knowing that some members (and guests) want to read about this topic, I decided to let you know about this article.
Title: "The Costs of the Confederacy"
Authors: Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler
Magazine: (Print) issue of Smithsonian for December, 2018, pages 54 - 63, 76 -78. (I assume that it's online.)
*****
Here are some comments that are prominently displayed in the article:
P. 55: "In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that distort U.S. history and perpetuate racist ideology."
P. 57: "The state is giving the stamp of approval to these lost cause ideas, and the money is a symbol of that approval. What does that say to black citizens?"
P. 60: "Monuments to the 'Lost Cause' will prove monuments of folly," [Frederick] Douglass wrote in 1870. "It is a needless record of stupidity and wrong."