No Context Needed! History Is Often Best Preserved by Leaving It Alone (AL)
Florence City Council votes to not place marker in front of Confederate monument
Florence City Council votes to not place marker in front of Confederate monument
(WAFF) - The Florence City Council voted Tuesday evening on whether or not to place a marker in front of a controversial Confederate Soldiers Monument.
The monument, which has stood outside three different Lauderdale County Courthouses since 1903 and the current courthouse since 1965, has been called for removal by many members of the community.
The statue shows a soldier from the Civil War with text that reads, “In memory of the Confederate dead in Lauderdale County.”
The plaque that was up for vote Tuesday by the City Council would acknowledge that while early monuments placed after the Civil War were designed to honor veterans and those lost in the fighting, “The majority of Confederate monuments, however, were erected later, in the years between the 1890s and the 1930s, coinciding with the end of Reconstruction and the spread of white supremacist policies known as Jim Crow laws.” (Total BS! - DD)
The City Council voted 4-2 to not place the plaque in front of the statue…
Amen to that… don’t modify history.
No "contextual markers" are needed. What those markers do is give the rewritten, "woke" version that is 180 degrees opposite of the truth. There has already been way too much indoctrination without adding to it. We need the truth to be told instead of continuing the garbage spewed into the heads of our students.
The reason for the monuments being erected so many years after the war was due to the rampant poverty inflicted upon the South by the rotten yankees. There was no money. Women collected pennies, nickels, and dimes for years to raise enough money for the monuments. The monuments had nothing to do with "white supremacy", but celebrating ALL those (black, white, Indian, Mexican, and others) who wore the gray and fought in defense of their homeland. And as far as the Jim Crow laws go, they originated in the North, but the yankees love to blame the South for the very thing they invented.