Opinion: Statues of Confederate leaders are an unnecessary affront to black citizens, who shouldn’t have to see defenders of chattel slavery put on a pedestal, literally
It is impossible to evaluate these monuments without considering the context of why they were created in the first place. Many of them were erected as part of the push to enshrine a dishonest, prettied-up version of the Confederacy—they weren’t a testament to our history, but a distortion of it.
The bases are a harder case, since their names have themselves entered the American military tradition and places like Fort Bragg and Fort Benning are better known than their namesakes, the Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and Henry Benning. But as the source of their names becomes more widely known, it’s going to be harder to ask African American soldiers willing to sacrifice life and limb for their country to look past them.
The apotheosis of Lee was an element of a Lost Cause mythology that maintained that the Civil War wasn’t truly about slavery, only Southern states defending their legitimate prerogatives. This interpretation became very influential; it was also completely false.
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