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grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:06 PM Aug 2017

It's time to fund the National Slavery Museum and gift the confederacy monuments to them.

It's part of our racist history just like the Holocaust is part of Europe's.

They should be used as a teaching tool for current and future generations.

'Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.'



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It's time to fund the National Slavery Museum and gift the confederacy monuments to them. (Original Post) grossproffit Aug 2017 OP
Photos will do. The actual statues should be put on a sandbar oasis Aug 2017 #1
What did the eastern European nations do with the statues of Lenin and Stalin? DBoon Aug 2017 #2
Just so those rebel icons are adequately defiled. Make my day. oasis Aug 2017 #3
I'm glad the Holocaust museum didn't do this. grossproffit Aug 2017 #4
Why would such a museum want that crap? Just melt 'em down and re-purpose the metal. brush Aug 2017 #5

oasis

(49,376 posts)
1. Photos will do. The actual statues should be put on a sandbar
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:14 PM
Aug 2017

so the seagulls can have something to shit on.

DBoon

(22,356 posts)
2. What did the eastern European nations do with the statues of Lenin and Stalin?
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:17 PM
Aug 2017

might be a useful example to follow

brush

(53,769 posts)
5. Why would such a museum want that crap? Just melt 'em down and re-purpose the metal.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:29 PM
Aug 2017

New trash cans seems appropriate, or maybe sewer grates.

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