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The history and future of Confederate monuments
It's hard to forget the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia seven months ago when hundreds of white supremacists showed up to protest the proposed removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a Confederate hero of the Civil War. What happened that weekend re-ignited a national debate about what to do with some 700 other Confederate monuments in towns and cities across the country, mostly in the South. We decided to take a closer look at these monuments and were surprised to learn not just when they were built and why, but who wants to tear them down, and who doesn't. We began in New Orleans where the culmination of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's crusade to remove four Confederate monuments looked more like a military operation than a construction job.
When the city of New Orleans removed a giant statue of P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general who ordered the first shots fired in the Civil War, they did it in the dead of night. Construction crews wore bulletproof helmets and vests.
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Anderson Cooper: You look at these monuments. You wouldn't know the Confederacy lost.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu: Well, that was the whole point. The whole point was to convince people that actually they won, and even in their defeat, it was a noble cause. And of course, the whole point of this is to-- is to confront history. I mean, this wasn't an LSU-Alabama football game where it didn't matter who won and lost, and you just got braggin' rights. I mean, we were talkin' about millions of people enslaved, 600,000 American citizens were killed, and they were trying to destroy the country.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-history-and-future-of-confederate-monuments/
It's hard to forget the violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia seven months ago when hundreds of white supremacists showed up to protest the proposed removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, a Confederate hero of the Civil War. What happened that weekend re-ignited a national debate about what to do with some 700 other Confederate monuments in towns and cities across the country, mostly in the South. We decided to take a closer look at these monuments and were surprised to learn not just when they were built and why, but who wants to tear them down, and who doesn't. We began in New Orleans where the culmination of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's crusade to remove four Confederate monuments looked more like a military operation than a construction job.
When the city of New Orleans removed a giant statue of P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general who ordered the first shots fired in the Civil War, they did it in the dead of night. Construction crews wore bulletproof helmets and vests.
-Snip-
Anderson Cooper: You look at these monuments. You wouldn't know the Confederacy lost.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu: Well, that was the whole point. The whole point was to convince people that actually they won, and even in their defeat, it was a noble cause. And of course, the whole point of this is to-- is to confront history. I mean, this wasn't an LSU-Alabama football game where it didn't matter who won and lost, and you just got braggin' rights. I mean, we were talkin' about millions of people enslaved, 600,000 American citizens were killed, and they were trying to destroy the country.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-history-and-future-of-confederate-monuments/
Trump supporters can't fathom that this country was founded on Liberal principles, that the Confederacy was an anti-American, slave-holding, criminal cabal which conducted atrocities against humanity. Charlottesville was only the tip of the iceberg, and the armed-to-the-teeth racists are seething with bigoted rage at the blow-back they're getting from decent Liberal-minded Americans.
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