A monument of a Confederate soldier sits at the entrance of a North Carolina county courthouse. It violates the Fourteenth Amendment, a group says.
  • fiat_lux
    55•29 days ago

    It annoyed me that I couldn’t see the whole statue. It’s just a statue of the local general but another part of the inscription was also interesting:

    THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WON AND IS ENTITLED TO THE ADMIRATION OF ALL WHO LOVE HONOR, AND LIBERTY.

    Uh huh. From a monument built 50 years after the war ended. Physical copium.

    • Tar_Alcaran
      20•28 days ago

      THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WON

      Ah, now I see why conservatives want to learn history from statues.

    • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
      8•28 days ago

      White slave-owner: … all those who love honor, and liberty
      Black slave: Excuse m–
      White slave-owner: Not you!