(07-05-2020 11:05 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(07-05-2020 10:44 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(07-05-2020 10:30 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  Let's start with those monuments to the Confederacy that were placed in black neighborhoods during the Jim Crow era as a "message" to black people. What do you propose is the trade value on those?

I already said--several times--move them to museums, battlefield sites, or military cemeteries where they are buried.

What do you agree to give up in return?

Why do conservatives feel that memorials to confederate war heroes are a conservative issue to fight for? What about the honoring people who fought to secede from the United States makes conservatives want to support that? If you view moving these statues to a museum as something you’re giving up, you must logically find that this is something conservatives don’t want to do.

This is about statues honoring Confederates, not historical markers/buildings which rig
htfully should stand as a way to teach (similar to how moving these statues to museums is a very appropriate action).

Perhaps because each and every decision should be made by that community. If Leesburg Va decides to change their name, that is inherently their decision.

As opposed to removal by national consensus.

Turning your comment around, why in the fk should the removal of a statue be anything but a local opinion?