Don't Bury the Past, Understand It-- Part 2

Confederate monuments were erected after the Civil War to honor generals and the common soldiers.  Many of those common soldiers never owned a slave.  They were fighting not to be able to own a slave, but to defend their homes from invasion by enemy soldiers.

Nothing can justify slavery  No person or group can be proved innocent of that aspect of our history.  "But it did occur.  We should not bury it, but we must make an effort to understand it realizing that understanding it does not justify it."

The author thinks taking down the monuments should be done democratically  through city and county governments.  I would go a step further and really make it a democratic process and have the people vote on it.  Majority rules in my country.  If the majority votes to take them down, then take them down.  Too often, city and county governments are made up of a lot of Blacks or Whites afraid to upset Blacks by retaining the monuments.

"Remember, we are looking at history through 21st century eyes.  The people who erected those monuments looked at it and lived through 19th century eyes worth no impact from black comment."

Something to Think About.  --Old Secesh