A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery after a push from a citizens group and some GOP lawmakers. The temporar…
A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery after a push from a citizens group and some GOP lawmakers.
The temporary restraining order, issued by U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. in Alexandra, Va., comes just one day after a group called Defend Arlington, which is affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a suit against the Department of Defense seeking a restraining order against the memorial’s removal.
It is set to expire at 5 p.m. Wednesday following an expected hearing Wednesday morning.
Who can forget when the garrison at Fort Sumpter aggressively followed their orders by not leaving when ordered to by a group of people with no authority. Those yank soldiers were standing there, MENACINGLY!
My honors US history professor taught us the Civil War was all about trade. Well, yeah, that was certainly an important part, Northern industry vs. agrarian South. It was a huge part of the war, both how it started and how it played out.
By FFS, did the man never read the various states letters of succession?! Here go a few.
And seriously people, read those letters. Don't clap yourself on the back for regurgitating, "It was SLAVERY!" Come at it from a learned point of view or you're no better than anyone else talking shit.
I mean the "citizen's group", and the members of GOP. The Judge might not be complicit as they might just be exercising due process or extreme caution, but they do deserve the side eye.
For about 1/10th of a second I thought, "Well, maybe not so inappropriate at Arlington. It is a place dedicated to fallen American warriors, even if they lost fighting the Union."
The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
Meh, not so bad. I kinda like the idea there.
Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
LOL my god. We're done here. Drop that shit in the Marianna Trench.
I wouldn't want the creatures in the Marianna Trench to think we're endorsing that kind of thing. Although, we arguably deserve an eldritch horror from the deep surfacing to judge us for our evil deeds.
There's an article, but the tldr is... In 1906, 51 years after the losers lost, the daughters of the confederacy wanted to remind Black people where their place was.
Why are some GOP lawmakers supporting a monument built for traitors and racists? If it is about heritage, then why are you proud of a traitorous heritage? If it's simply not to wipe away history then why can't they just follow their plan of putting it in a museum?
Hopefully that museum shows it in a context that does not glorify a bunch of insurrectionist slaver garbage.
Now a group claiming ancestry from a Confederate veteran named Moses Jacob Ezekiel, who was a renowned sculptor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is asking that one of his most prominent works be taken down.
Twenty-two people in the Ezekiel family — ages 20 to 90 — from across the country signed the letter calling for the Confederate Memorial’s removal from Arlington.
“All of us agree that monuments to the Confederacy are racist justifications of slavery, of owning people,” she said Friday in a telephone interview. “We wanted to say that although Ezekiel is a relative of ours, we still believe it’s a relic of a racist past.”
Let's not forget Trump vetoed the Bill that was overridden by Congress that allowed this to happen.
I don't know the judge, but it seems more like they're just following procedure right now. If they end up ruling to keep it in place, that's another matter.