Striking the Stars and Bars

BE DAMNED SURE of the following: the confederate States of america was neither a noble nor lost cause, and that the American Civil Was was fought over the issue of slavery, whether to preserve it, not state's rights. Leaving the union and launching a war of aggression to preserve slavery was inherently ignoble, traitorous and treasonous, and the essential re-enslavement of African-Americans following reconstruction essentially preserved the ignoble institution, vestiges of which arguably remain to this today, as clearly indicated by contemporary American culture. In point of fact the confederfates and their sympathizers were treasonous traitors, which is why Abraham Lincoln locked up southern sympathizers in Washington D.C. and threw away the key, illegally. Statues to confederate heroes were erected long after the war, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when southern resentment of the United States and blacks were at their peak, and white supremacy suffused southern culture as white supremacists organized in the KKK and the conservative community, and dominated southern state and local governments. Take down the statues to traitors. The argument that doing so erases history is patently fatuous; history books are not in short supply. Some African-Americans with noble intent have suggested that since the statues can harm no one unless they happen to topple in the wind at inopportune times conveniently ignores the emotional damage they do. Thomas Jefferson and Winston Churchill were racists, We could do without many statues and monuments to people. A comprehensive solution might be to relocate statues of genocidal killers such as Andrew Jackson, St. Paul, and William T. sherman in museums as art, which they actually are. In their place, if anything, erect monuments to truly great people: artists, poets, scientists, teachers., and to animals and nature.