[mvpel]

Why should conservatives fight to protect monuments to dead Democrat slave-owners? What’s next, a statue of Ted Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick town square?

[PATRIOT1876]

It is erasing history in Soviet fashion.
Besides, the Civil War was not primarily about slavery. Lincoln did that mid-war as a PR move.

At least, the majority of Confederate soldiers were not fighting to keep slavery.

[Uversabound]

Ted Kennedy in the Chappaquiddick town square?

Its why I LOVE FREEREPUBLIC!!!

Freegards

PS when in MV in 1999 my sister and I did our Conservative duty and went around asking for Chappaquiddick tee shirts.

it was barf alert

[mrmeyer]

Because after the Confederate monuments come down, the monuments for Washington, Jefferson and the other founders will be targeted next by the cultural marxists. These efforts to erase history are stalinistic.

[nathanbedford]

Thomas Jackson owned no slaves, Robert E Lee manumitted his wife's slaves. Jackson was looked askance upon and regarded to be eccentric in Lexington because he conducted Sunday school classes for black children.

Both were fighting for home rule (albeit for whites) and local democracy and regarded themselves as conducting the Second American Revolution.

You might consider them the anti-globalists of their time.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Civil War veterans are considered the same as any other US military veterans. This isn’t any different than removing statues of Washington because he had ideals that don’t agree with those doing the removing.

[JBW1949]

You do realize that Ulysses S Grant was a slave owner...Also was William T Sherman....

Should their monuments also be removed????