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'Changing history'? No - 32 Confederate monuments dedicated in past 17 years
Source: The Guardian
'Changing history'? No – 32 Confederate monuments dedicated in past 17 years
Trump complains that efforts to take down Confederate memorials amount to altering the past, but numerous examples made their mark in recent decades
Amanda Holpuch and Mona Chalabi in New York
Wednesday 16 August 2017 21.54 BST
“You are changing history,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday of efforts to remove Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere across the United States. “You’re changing culture.”
History about as old as the George W Bush presidency, it turns out in a surprising number of cases – and culture stretching back to the heyday of Britney Spears.
Thirty-two Confederate memorials have been dedicated in the past 17 years, according to a survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). That’s at least 135 years after the demise of the secessionist movement the monuments ostensibly celebrate.
The symbols include public schools, plaques and monuments, such as a stone in St Cloud, Florida, engraved in honor of Confederate soldiers and of Florida’s cattlemen and farmers “who risked their lives and fortunes to supply our troops fighting in defense of their families, state and nation”.
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Trump complains that efforts to take down Confederate memorials amount to altering the past, but numerous examples made their mark in recent decades
Amanda Holpuch and Mona Chalabi in New York
Wednesday 16 August 2017 21.54 BST
“You are changing history,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday of efforts to remove Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere across the United States. “You’re changing culture.”
History about as old as the George W Bush presidency, it turns out in a surprising number of cases – and culture stretching back to the heyday of Britney Spears.
Thirty-two Confederate memorials have been dedicated in the past 17 years, according to a survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). That’s at least 135 years after the demise of the secessionist movement the monuments ostensibly celebrate.
The symbols include public schools, plaques and monuments, such as a stone in St Cloud, Florida, engraved in honor of Confederate soldiers and of Florida’s cattlemen and farmers “who risked their lives and fortunes to supply our troops fighting in defense of their families, state and nation”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/confederate-monuments-civil-war-history-trump
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