You want to talk about erasing history? Let’s talk about the Devil’s Half Acre being paved over by VCU. Let’s talk about MCV stealing black people’s bodies for experimentation. Let’s talk about African American cemeteries that receive little funding for care&maintenance. (1/9)
Actually... you know what.... let’s talk about the entirety of the Lost Cause campaign that re-branded the history of slavery and racism as “states rights” issues. You want to say that Germany erased the history of the Nazis? Have you been to a concentration camp? (2/9)
I’ve been to two. There is absolutely no erasure of the reality of the systemic genocide of ethnic minorities. You claim that because what? There are no statues of Hitler in Munich? A monument isn’t history. And the monuments we have in Richmond frequently aren’t (3/9)
“Confederate Monuments.” They are Lost Cause monuments to make white people feel better about losing a war and reinforce white supremacy during a time of Jim Crow laws. They are monuments to remind black people of how white Richmond perceived them. (4/9)
They are monuments that were placed as part of a development project for the private sector to benefit off of sentiment and tenderness for blatant white supremacy. At the end of the day, if the South prevailed, how long would the enslavement of human beings persisted? (5/9)
You know what matters more than some dumbass monuments made of stone? People. And while white people like myself are out here today getting drunk and staring at the sky in wonder... just remember that on July 4, 1776... the Declaration of Independence that said all (6/9)
men are created equal was read for and about WHITE MEN. It was another 87 years until the emancipation proclamation, 144 years until white women got the right to vote, and 192 years until the Civil Rights act was passed. (7/9)
The only history taking those monuments down will erase is the FALSE history created and perpetuated by white supremacists who wanted to claim the Civil War was not about slavery. (8/9)
To conclude.... worry about your own personal incompetence instead of dictating what I should worry about and as Kendrick Lamar would say— miss me with that bullshit. (9/9) 🧜🏻♀️
