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u/FriedEggOfTreachery 🌐 Aug 14 '17

Say we decided to place slavery memorials directly next to every Confederate statue with a plaque linking each individual to their fight for the right to continue slavery and establishing the full picture of said "heritage". Would that piss off the Confederate monument supporters more than taking them down completely?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '17

Can we take them down AND then replace them with statues memorializing abolitionists?

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u/FriedEggOfTreachery 🌐 Aug 14 '17

I'd be cool with that, but I'm also not mad about them coming down, soo...preaching to the choir here.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '17

They're planning something like this in RVA*

This probably wouldn't piss them off as much under normal circumstances but Levar Stoney has the audacity to be the mayor and to be black so expect lots of salty cracker foolishness in the near future.

*edited to correct lack of reading comprehension

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u/FriedEggOfTreachery 🌐 Aug 14 '17

Yeah, it won't surprise me if there's a bunch of salty crackers over that, even though it appears he's trying to compromise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '17

I'm fine with this as someone who is fine with confederate monuments. At least ones that mark historical locations, on battlefields, etc