'We won, you know?'

[struggle4progress]

By Sky Chadde
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
3 hrs ago

... “Our country is polarized due to systemic racism,” said Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, whose Senate Bill 584 would require the moving of Missouri’s Confederate statues and plaques to a state park in Higginsville. “It’s time for those Confederate flags and monuments to go where they belong — in a museum.”

The bill also would ban the sale or display of Confederate flags on state property. In the Capitol’s gift shop Wednesday, a post card bearing the flag of Pindall’s 9th Battalion Missouri Sharpshooters, a Confederate unit, could be purchased for 50 cents ...

Asked whether the monuments should be destroyed, Nasheed said she would like to go farther than moving Confederate monuments to a museum.

“They should be destroyed,” she said. “We won, you know?” ...

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/we-won-you-know-st-louis-senator-wants-to-put/article_dbf17162-bd0b-5b73-ba55-ee2101ad4b4b.html

[marble falls]

1. We won, you know? ... exactly right. At best the Dixie Rag is a second place ribbon and....

the statues are at best participation trophies. Put 'em in a locked closet and let them collect dust.