The statue depicted an enslaved Black man dutifully following his enslaver into a Civil War battle, imagery that is often described as the “faithful slave” trope, which historians say has been used to falsely convey that enslaved people were content with their lives before the war. The statue also featured an enslaved Black woman, depicted as a “Mammy,” caring for a white child — a racist caricature that has long been used to whitewash the brutality and exploitation of slavery.
18 Comments
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2d
The master white race agenda never left just switched hands. Elon Musk and Trump what a weird coincidence.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 17 pts · 2d
When's the Alamo getting a Santa Anna statue? What about a British soldier statue in Boston? We could celebrate all the losers equally well.
fonix232@fedia.io · 14 pts · 2d
Trump did put up a few golden statues of himself so celebrating the losers tracks.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2d
The Americans lost at the Alamo. It’s why the call is “Remember the Alamo” (and how Santa Anna killed everyone there)
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · -1 pts · 2d
The Americans lost? Which part of Texas was America in 1836?
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2d
We lost at the Alamo. We did not lose the war, but we lost at the battle.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 4 pts · 2d
But America as a nation did not fight at the Alamo. American expats yes, but it was not an American territory or state at that point.
YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2d
Fair enough.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2d
Why do the losers of the war have statues? They lost.
LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 1d
Because they weren’t appropriately punished at the time.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Participation trophies
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
It's what I ask every time this comes up. It'd be as if Europe decided to put up a bunch of statues to Nazis.
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 2d
Is the Fed just going to “white wash” everything?
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 8 pts · 2d
Oh just you wait, after they erase slavery from the past and immigrants and trans people from the present, they're gonna start on every other aspect of the culture war they despise.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
The Seven Mountain Mandate crazies definitely intend to.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2d
this is why statues glorifying horrors shouldn’t be "recontextualized", or hidden in an archive somewhere, they should be destroyed
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Truly disgusting.
Noam_Calhoun@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d
He somehow thinks we will ever have monuments to HIM. They won't be the kind he is thinking of however.