KENTUCKY REMOVES CONFEDERATE STATUES TO CONFEDERATE CEMETERY OVERNIGHT

The statues are now among the traitors they represented. And the white people who want to visit those who fought to keep this country divided and keep slavery in place will likely be the only ones who will see them from this point forwarded. 

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As the sun set Tuesday on a beautiful fall day, it also set on Lexington’s two most visible symbols of history rewritten.

• A bronze statue of John C. Breckinridge, a former U.S. vice president whose last public role was as the Confederate Secretary of War, had stood in a place of honor in Lexington’s public square since 1887. More than two decades after the Civil War ended, the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed it there and persuaded Kentucky legislators that it was a good use of $10,000 of taxpayer money.
• Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, a cavalry raider who burned towns and stole horses, was honored nearby with a bronze equestrian statue in 1911, nearly five decades after the Civil War ended. When the memorial group could raise only half the statue’s $15,000 cost, state officials used taxpayer money for the other half.

In both cases, black citizens were not asked their opinions. These statues were all about showing them who was still boss.

The Morgan and Breckinridge statues were among dozens erected around the South during Jim Crow era. The goal was to recast the image of a rebellion to destroy the Union and preserve slavery as a noble “lost cause” of Southern culture and pride.

Those monuments endured for more than a century, but they have begun coming down across the South because they can no longer be explained away as benign artifacts. Modern white supremacists, who have friends in high places, rally around them as hateful symbols of “heritage.” A deadly protest over removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., spurred Mayor Jim Gray and the Urban County Council to action.

~KENTUCKY.COM

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Black Lives Matter has raised awareness of these statues and race issues in general. Other groups have taken up the cause of pushing back against white racists and white supremacy enablers as a result. And this should be considered a victory because these statues were put up right after the civil war, the message to black people being "you're still nothing and we, the white people, are still in charge"

Southern whites made good on that threat and northern whites followed suit in many ways.

Today is a good day for anti-racism