'THEY WERE RACISTS' spray-painted on Confederate monument in Nashville

[Quemado]

https://www.wsls.com/news/national/confederate-monument-vandalized-in-nashville

[tazkcmo]

1. And traitors. n/t

[Caliman73]

9. Not that I condone vandalism...

but I think "They were traitors" would have been better. Of course they were racists. I would bet the majority of the soldiers fighting on the Union side were also racists. The difference is that in the South, they actually did not see Black people as human beings and thus maintained chattel slavery to the point of treason against the rest of the country.

[BlueWI]

31. The statue itself is vandalism.

Condoning rebellion against the federal government in the name of racial hatred... it's a shame that Confederate public nostalgia has endured as long as it has.

[Caliman73]

32. Good point.

Remember that "confederate" public nostalgia is White Supremacy public nostalgia. Unfortunately it is quite common.

[EveHammond13]

30. and prolific child rapists

[struggle4progress]

2. "O! dearie me! This seems so unkind! Wouldn't it be nicer for everyone

if I could sit on my shady veranda sipping a mint julep with my people, and you all could sit somewhere else with your people, and we just didn't mingle too much or drag up such unpleasant memories?"

[dchill]

3. Oh my! Is it giving you the vapors?

Me too! Whatevah shall we do?

[struggle4progress]

4. I got me them vapors so fierce-like I actually forgot to mention getting them

[dchill]

6. Dear me!...

It seems I'm responding to you in more than one place. Great minds...

[Roy Rolling]

17. Sounds like...

Sounds like someone needs a fainting couch.

[dchill]

21. And a fan!

[samir.g]

5. too bad it wasn't chiseled instead of painted

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Truth in Advertising!

And the wealthiest ones counted amongst their property human beings.

Some people wonder why the conservative protectors of today like Mitch McConnell toady up to Trump and Putin.

[TygrBright]

8. Also traitors. Oh, yeah, and LOSERS. n/t

[jpak]

10. Those Dastardly Yankees!

Dastardly!

[ck4829]

11. Well... they were

[shanny]

12. racists, traitors ...and losers! Bigly. eom

[Hoyt]

13. Give them a medal. I'll pay for the paint.

[Progressive dog]

14. Memorials to racist traitors

should not be allowed om any public property.

[weissmam]

15. and don't forget

TRAITORS

[paleotn]

16. I know that monument...

It's in Centennial Park. I've seen it many times. Glad someone put it to good use.

[Docreed2003]

27. Yep it sure is

[Karadeniz]

18. Just the right finishing touch! Now it's perfect!

[Jarqui]

20. Suddenly, with that little 'addition', I don't find them nearly as objectionable nt

[Leith]

19. Here's a good laugh

I decided to find it on Google Maps (27th Avenue). But, guess what? The best you can see is one small corner of it. There is either a tree trunk or a leafy bush or tree in the way, or it's too far to tell what it is. They must have done that on purpose.

[VOX]

22. Re the monument's namesake, the linked article lifts from Wikipedia, but omits the slavery part.

The monument was dedicated to Confederate soldiers in 1909, specifically to the Frank Cheatham Bivouac No. 1, camp 35. Note below how the news article lifts a sentence directly from Wikipedia, but casually erases the slavery aspect of this "Southern gentleman's" biography: "elite of the slave society" is downgraded to "aristocracy."

From the linked WSLS article, regarding Benjamin Franklin Cheatham:
...He was born in Nashville into two of the most prominent families of the middle Tennessee aristocracy...

From Wikipedia, pertinent sentence bolded:
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham was born in Nashville, Tennessee on a plantation called Westover, which in its prime consisted of three thousand acres. He was born into two of the most prominent families of the middle Tennessee elite of the slave society. His mother was descended from General James Robertson, the founder of Nashville and "father" of Middle Tennessee, who came from Virginia. The Cheathams had been in middle Tennessee for two generations and become established as plantation owners, lawyers, doctors and mayors of the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Cheatham

[SCVDem]

23. HOW?

Do you get around the Turtle?

[ProudLib72]

24. I am fine with this

Not really a big deal, though I'm sure the contemporary racists will have a conniption fit and call it "uncivil."

[brush]

29. I am too, and they should've added "and traitors" to it.

[Hulk]

25. Confederate flags fly proudly across Texas..

We are just concluding a 4 day drive through Texas, and I've counted a half dozen confederate flags flying in yards along the highways. Makes me want to vandalize them, but these same yokels are probably sitting by their windows with a lock and loaded AR 15, just waiting to shoot some damned Yankee.

Plenty of red neck goat ropers...but also so of the sweetest people in the country.

[muntrv]

26. They were traitors.

[Duppers]

28. A continuum, a monument to modern day repubs.

Finally labeled as it should be.

Next step: tear it down.