Though dozens of congressional Republicans protested the move, the Army says it will begin work in coming days

The Lost Cause movement, which recast rebel traitors as morally righteous warriors defending states’ rights and spread the false belief that slavery was benevolent, is evident in the memorial’s bronze panels. A weeping Black woman, described by cemetery historians as a stereotypical “mammy,” clutches the baby of a White officer, and a camp servant dutifully follows his enslaver toward battle.

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    It’s so weird how the cons clutch their pearls whenever an accusation of racism is leveled at them, but they tell on themselves all the time when it comes to monuments to racist traitorous scum.

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    But mah heritage! Mah five years of heritage!

    The View has lasted over 5 times longer than the Confederacy.

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      I assumed that would be the most popular attraction at the Trump Presidential Library, but they don’t seem to be building one. I guess you don’t need an entire library to store a copy of The Art of the Deal.

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    Republicans are always calling themselves “The Party of Lincoln”. So, why would they want to preserve the statues of Lincoln’s enemies?

    It’s almost as if every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation.

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    That’s a Democrat memorial though, they remind us all the time that the Democrats are really the racists because they supported slavery during the Civil War. And it’s a participation trophy, something else they foam at the mouth and lash their tooth over.

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      Yep. The parties completely flipped sides on this as a result of Nixon deciding to court the southern vote through appeals to racism

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        Republicans want to have it both ways. They want to be able to call Democrats the party of slavery and the KKK, but they also want to keep monuments to people who fought for slavery that were erected by people in the KKK.

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      I grew up within a stone’s throw of where William T. Sherman was born, and I gotta say… I’m in the mood for some southern bbq and a delightful stroll to the ocean.