Comments by "Rhythmicons" (@Rhythmicons) on "Gunman Wearing MAGA Hat Shoots Indigenous Activist at New Mexico Protest over Conquistador Statue" video.
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@Fgway You are missing the point. The statues were erected by the children and grandchildren of the Confederate soldiers in response to a burgeoning civil rights movement. They stood as vindictive power monuments reminding the black communities who is in charge in the exact same manner that Sarah Suckadee Sanders' proposed abortion monument does. Statues to these men are still being erected and the genealogy societies and veterans' organizations that erect them are indeed engaging in a form of ancestor worship when you read their documents. The statues, when placed in the context of the efforts to indoctrinate children with Confederate catechisms all reinforce white supremacist ideology and plantation sentimentalism. They are different than statues to historical figures such as Washington and Jefferson, who had unfortunate parts of their history that contrast the greatness of their contributions to the world. The Confederate statues in particular don't represent anything but the CAUSE, which was to preserve slavery and white supremacy. You just aren't familiar with historical memory and the reasoning behind the statues or the history of them, thus you frame them and the opposition to them in dubious ways. Now that you have been told this, you should reevaluate your position.
Edit: Take what I have said above and connect that with the attacks on the public education system by the right, the anti-black legislation which stymies genuine evaluation of history in public schools and universities, and they are all connected. Thus, the right cares just as much about those statues as they do making sure that minority groups don't strip white anglo saxon christian hands from the levers of power.
Primary Sources
Declarations of Immediate Causes of the Seceding States (GaMsTxScVa)
Alexander H. Stephens' Cornerstone Speech
Confederate Constitution
Secondary Sources
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001.
Coski, John M. The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
Cox, Karen L. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Horton, James Oliver, and Louis E. Horton, eds., Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. New York: The New Press, 2006.
Janney, Caroline A. Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Levine, Bruce. The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South. New York: Random House, 2013.
Marshall, Anne E. Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
McPherson James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Rubin, Sarah Anne. Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
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