NC Citizens Step Up When Their State Is Too Cowardly to Act
In a Private Park in North Carolina, Confederate Statues Are Rising Again
In a Private Park in North Carolina, Confederate Statues Are Rising Again
Amid the rolling farmland of central North Carolina, near the small town of Denton, three nearly identical Confederate statues stand on a 1.5-acre patch of manicured grass.
All three statues depict unnamed soldiers — men with mustaches, clutching rifles, atop pedestals affixed to sturdy concrete bases. And all three previously stood in communities around the state, until social justice protests swept the country in recent years, and demonstrators demanded the statues’ removal because they saw them as memorializing historical racism.
Now they stand in a private park, Valor Memorial, that is dedicated to resurrecting Confederate statues that municipalities removed from public view.
One of the park’s creators, Toni London, said she believed that Confederate soldiers deserved the same honor as any other veterans.
“It’s been an obsession to make it succeed, to make it better,” Ms. London, 52, said of the park, “and to save more…
This is an example of what most of us have been saying since Obama started his, or is it her, nonsense. Government can not fix the problems that the government created. The whole so-called United States government, from the senators to congressmen to the bureaucrats, must be replaced with those who are willing to support and defend the Constitution. If it takes the elimination of a 100 thousand to save 330 million, then let it be done.