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https://www.villagevoice.com/2015/03/11/what-to-make-of-kehinde-wileys-pervy-brooklyn-museum-retrospective/
What to Make of Kehinde Wiley’s Pervy Brooklyn Museum Retrospective?
If you think you recognize one of the paintings from the Fox evening soap Empire on the walls of the Brooklyn Museum’s Kehinde Wiley retrospective,...
John Hunt Morgan Memorial - Wikipedia
The John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky, is a monument created as a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, who was from Lexington and is buried in nearby Lexington Cemetery.
- "Robert E. Lee said on several occasions that he was opposed to any monuments, as they would, in his opinion, "keep open the sores of war"."
- "Many more monuments were dedicated in the years after 1890, when Congress established the first National Military Park at Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and by the turn of the twentieth century, five battlefields from the Civil War had been preserved: Chickamauga-Chattanooga, Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh, and Vicksburg."
- "At Vicksburg National Military Park, more than 95 percent of the park's monuments were erected in the first eighteen years after the park was established in 1899."
- "Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South"
- "Another wave of monument construction coincided with the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) and the American Civil War Centennial."
- "Thirty-two Confederate monuments were dedicated between 2000 and 2017..."
Bottomline, the initial monuments that went up were associated to battlefield monuments, national parks, and cemeteries. The majority of monuments that you're whining in defending are in public squares and government buildings; or they are individuals not even connected to that town, city or state; or were erected in the error of Jim Crow and anti-Civil Rights movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials
List of Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia
This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams,...
"The Morgan and Breckinridge statues were among dozens erected around the South during the 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."
The statues were relocated to where Morgan and Breckinridge are buried. Oh the humanity of the city council voting for their relocation.
http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article179459721.html
These Confederate statues were put up to rewrite history. They needed to come down.
The statues of John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan, erected in Lexington’s public square decades after the Civil War, were all about rewriting Confederate history. Removing them will now allow a more accurate and complete history to be told.
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