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Old 09-06-2017, 11:04 PM   #17
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And whatever the motivations of Lee, Jackson and Davis may have been, the motivations of those who erected the statutes and other monuments long after the war are clear. They were a bunch of racists.

I think that assuming that all who supported the erection of the statues were racist is pretty ridiculous. That makes no more sense than assuming that those that fought for the Union weren't racist. My ancestors fought for the union. They were against slavery. I am quite confident they were also racist.

We do a disservice to the understanding of history by viewing things in simple, black and white terms.
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