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Confederate statues are as much a part of American history, and what some would call culture, as Martin Luther King statues, whether people love them or hate them. Removal of one kind of statue and not the other isn't multiculturalism, it's one group claiming the park the statue sat on as their own, and it will never unify everybody.
As long as a country says one kind of history is okay as long as everybody likes it, but the other is not, the country will remain divided, since one group, or culture, as some would call it, doesn't really respect the other. That isn't multiculturalism, though America has always been a melting pot, and is made of many different groups of the same (human) race. If people have to remove, forget, or pretend something never existed (including Confederate statues) to validate themselves, they don't really respect it, they only respect their own group (or most likely self).
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A Confederate statue is no more a threat to public safety than a statue of a Civil Rights leader. The statue was never the threat, it's the ppl eople that gather around the statue, no matter their shade of skin, that are a threat to each other. The statues are fine the way they are, they were after all, built by humans.
It's not everybody's problem when someone is offended by a Confederate statue, just like it's not everybody's problem when someone is offended by a statue of a Civil Rights leader. Both kinds of statues should be left alone, if anything people are more of a threat to the statues than the statues are to people.
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Mansa Musa owned slaves, and might have been the wealthiest person to ever live. If there was a statue of Mansa Musa standing in every major city in the world, people most likely wouldn't try to remove it. The image/idea that black people are marginalized and in need of saving by other groups is a relatively new one if you look at all of history, it's mostly just the last couple hundred years people came up with this image/idea. The reality is the people protesting the statues weren't doing it in the interest of humanity or human rights, they were doing it to support the agendas of the people they were following, especially the college dorks.
The image/idea that life is unfair to black people only nowadays is a recent development. The reality is life has always been unfair to most of the people living on the planet at any given time in history, no matter their sex, shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or personal beliefs about anything. People who try to get people to unify usually have a similar agenda to the ones who got them to divide in the first place. The Confederate statue protests are no different, the same ones trying to get people to divide try to get them to unify again before they wake up. The same ones that tear everyone and everything apart are the ones telling people they should be together on something.
Mansa Musa owned slaves, and might have been the wealthiest person to ever live. If there was a statue of Mansa Musa standing in every major city in the world, people most likely wouldn't try to remove it. The image/idea that black people are marginalized and in need of saving by other groups is a relatively new one if you look at all of history, it's mostly just the last couple hundred years people came up with this image/idea. The reality is the people protesting the statues weren't doing it in the interest of humanity or human rights, they were doing it to support the agendas of the people they were following, especially the college dorks.
The image/idea that life is unfair to black people only nowadays is a recent development. The reality is life has always been unfair to most of the people living on the planet at any given time in history, no matter their sex, shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or personal beliefs about anything. People who try to get people to unify usually have a similar agenda to the ones who got them to divide in the first place. The confederate statue protests are no different, the same ones trying to get people to divide try to get them to unify again before they wake up.
Mansa Musa owned slaves, and might have been the wealthiest person to ever live. If there was a statue of Mansa Musa standing in every major city in the world, people most likely wouldn't try to remove it. The image/idea that black people are marginalized and in need of saving by other groups is a relatively new one if you look at all of history, it's mostly just the last couple hundred years people came up with this image/idea. The reality is the people protesting the statues weren't doing it in the interest of humanity or human rights, they were doing it to support the agendas of the people they were following, especially the college dorks.
The image/idea that life is unfair to black people only nowadays is a recent development. The reality is life has always been unfair to most of the people living on the planet at any given time in history, no matter their sex, shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or personal beliefs about anything. People who try to get people to unify usually have a similar agenda to the ones who got them to divide in the first place. The confederate statue protests are no different, the same ones trying to get people to divide try to get them to unify again before they wake up. The same ones that tear everyone and everything apart are the ones telling people they should be together on something.
A surface object to represent the power struggle that was the Civil War, as all wars are really power struggles.
The Civil War wasn't about Confederate statues any more than it was about slavery, but if certain people are listened to and taken seriously, you would think it was.