Read the last sentence on the sign. Is your own county/city/school/building named after a white supremacist? 🤔
This monument stands at least 30 feet tall, dominating the landscape, and is an homage (complete with poetry) to Confederate soldiers.
Note that this monument came about through the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy which speaks to the role white women play in protecting a white supremacist patriarchal culture.
cf. "Dixie's Daughters" by Karen L. Cox (@SassyProf) upf.com/book.asp?id=97…
This is more than memorializing, it is glorifying the Confederacy and those who fought for it...which is to say it glorifies a rebellious army that broke from the Union for the "states' right" to own human beings of African descent.
This Confederate park is literally in the center of a majority-Black town, thus speaking to the centrality of white supremacy in the town's civic and social imagination despite (because of) the town's racial composition.
Exploring your local history is one of the best ways to build your awareness about race. White supremacy and the Lost Cause are literally carved in stone and celebrated in our public spaces.
In order to overcome racism and white supremacy we must #TakeThemDown
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