Imagine giving your life for your country, earning a spot at Arlington, and then being buried next to a racist statue.
Like, do you know it’s history? We seized the land from Lee, the leader of Confederates and who was himself strongly and publicly against any monument honoring the South…
Which is why it wasn’t installed till 50 years later when the rest of these racist monuments sprung up.
What?
It’s Arlington…
Imagine giving your life for your country, earning a spot at Arlington, and then being buried next to a racist statue.
Like, do you know it’s history? We seized the land from Lee, the leader of Confederates and who was himself strongly and publicly against any monument honoring the South…
Which is why it wasn’t installed till 50 years later when the rest of these racist monuments sprung up.