You wanna know what to put in place of one of those installed-in-1952 civil war statues they tore down?
Put this. Entitle it “tyranny will bend the backs of the strong. Let freedom ring.”
You’re right; someone should put up a large statue of this guy and his back. Make it visible. With a huge sign explaining who he was and why he looks this way. I’m sure republican supporters would complain, damage it or try to tear it down.
This is what comes to mind when some neonazi whines about preserving confederate statues n’ shit because of ‘muh heritage!’
They’re not wrong that it’s our heritage; but it’s DEFINITELY not one to be proud of. If we’re going to showcase that side of US history (and we should), it should be done similarly to that of the holocaust museum: pull no punches in highlighting the absolute evil of the aggressors, and the suffering of the victims.
When we look at our ‘heritage’ we should feel shame and disgust so that when current events start to echo that history, we understand the gravity of what’s unfolding and make it top priority to stop that shit in its tracks.
Much like many supposedly “unknowing” German citizens were forced to help clear the dead at the concentration camps, Reconstruction should have also included an “unofficial” system whereby every overseer got whipped just like that by a slave elected from amongst the slaves at their plantation.
That’s a lot of states rights on that man’s back.
And just think of all the useful skills that guy probably learned!
/s just in case there are any Florida school textbook authors in the thread
You sound like someone who reads a lot of banned books. We’d get along.
It’s OK, he probably learned some quality life skills from the experience. /s
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism in his state’s public school curriculum by arguing that some Black people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state’s new African American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.
“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis said on Friday
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/
Plenty of Americans will tell you the Civil War was about freedom. The question is whose freedom they care about.
Holy fucking shit those are really thick and outward.
Because of the grayscale color it almost looks like a bad weld job and metal just dripped all over. It’s so hard coming to terms with just how deep those must have been in order to scar up that much and probably often not just deep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(enslaved_man)
In this transcript Peter mentions “salt brine, which Overseer put in my back.”[8] This practice, sometimes called salting, was attested in many accounts of slave torture reported over many decades.[16] Other substances, including turpentine, hot-pepper juice, and dripping candle wax, were also used
Jesus fuck. And we let those white supremacist slave torturing fucks walk free.
Reconstruction was too soft and ended too soon.
Andrew Johnson is top three worst presidents
Let’s also not let Lincoln get away from this discussion. He absolutely did huge harm to the radical reconstruction movement, although Johnson turned that to 11. He also has an awful record in regards to indigenous peoples. (As has every president)
I’m not a believer in any purposeful and vengeful diety/dieties, but should I be wrong, I do hope the sadistic fucks that perpetrated this bullshit on other people found some kind of hell to rot in for eternity. Anyone that continues to defends this behavior can fucking join them.
The fact that this was allowed to happen for CENTURIES… The fact that the Holocaust happened, pretty much tells you there is no God. Or if there is, he certainly doesn’t give a shit about us… Or worse yet he’s an evil fuck who enjoys torture… But a loving God? No, that is impossible.
