Where does the Confederate purge go to next?

"[i]As a historian the hardest part of my job is that I am constantly building statues, as statues are the only way people learn about history. Little known fact, but most of what you learn when you pursue a PhD in history is actually just how to build and install statues. Just the other day I was discussing dissertation ideas with my advisor and she said "pick a different topic, there isn't a statue of this." The phrase "pre-history" derives from a German word meaning "periods of history that didn't leave statues behind so who knows what happened". Last year I did a ton of archival research only to have a conference reject my paper for: "failure to cite a statue." Harsh but fair! How do we know that Don Quixote and Rocky are real historic figures, and not fictional characters? Easy: because there are statues of them! How do historians know that F. Kafka's father was a terrifying headless monster and that Franz rode on his shoulders? Because of the statue. There are some who ask "which came first: the history or the statue?" But those people are philosophers and you should probably ignore them. Some argue that you can learn about history from books & other non-statue materials. But who has ever heard of learning from a book? No one! If a statue comes down it becomes impossible to know what happened in the past. No historian will dare make a claim without statue evidence. Don't we all know the famed adage: "if you want to be remembered, do something important - but also build a statue of it"?We do! Historians have been calling for a return to "statue based" education for years, but skills like "looking at statues" have been devalued. In conclusion: taking down statues permanently alters the space-time continuum (unless you build a statue of the other statue coming down).[/i]"
~Shipwreck

Get a clue!! [c=#BF0000][b]THIS ISN'T ABOUT STATUES!!!!![/b][/c]

There aren't any statues of Hitler either, get over it

You'll be surprised to learn I don't support the removal of Confederate statues... but only because it's wasting time and energy on symbolism instead of teaching and communicating. And because it's just feeding the fires of resentment from the White-supremos. Many Black folks I talked with told me they're too busy trying to survive to worry about some damn statue.

I only caught part of this story I was on the phone with a customer. In Tennessee one of the mayors is trying to have a confederate General Forest body removed. It started with flags then statues and now removing bodies. It will never stop. Watch the movie The tail that wags the dog.

I will erect a mighty and glorious statue of Lee on a horse on my property

All the money has slave owners on it.. quick send it to me for disposal.
Or you are enabling slave ownership you racists bigot Jim crows

Maybe someone should replace all the statues from the Soviet era across all the former SSRs

D constitution and bill of rights are invalid cause they were written by d man

Good point