TAKING DOWN CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS IN PUBLIC SPACES IN AMERICA
At Least 2000 Tributes On Taxed Public Land
Are In The USA To Traitors Who Founded A
Government Rooted In Slavery

At Least 2000 Tributes On Taxed Public Land
Are In The USA To Traitors Who Founded A
Government Rooted In Slavery
Taking down confederate monuments, TakeItDown! Founder, Earl M Johnson Jr., asked a federal judge Thursday for an order barring the city and state from spending any money to maintain or preserve any public tribute to Confederates, from statues to street signs. “We want … to get the Confederacy off of welfare,” said Earl M. Johnson Jr., who campaigns to remove memorials to the Confederacy through the website TakeItDownNow.org. The lawsuit argues that spending taxpayer money for tributes to the Confederacy violates the U.S. Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments, and says Johnson has “rights to be free of the badges, indicia and vestiges of slavery and to equal protection under the law.” If the suit is successful, a finding like that would impact budgets of countless communities nationwide. Excerpted from the Times Union.
According to Confederate Vice President, Alexander Stephens, in the cornerstone speech, “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. American Traitors created the first government founded upon white supremacy - rejecting the American ideal that all men were created equal, denouncing American Citizenship, taking up arms against the U.S. to maintain enslavement of Black people - because ”the negro is not equal to the white man.”
“Confederate monuments aren’t just heirlooms, the artifacts of a bygone era. Instead, American taxpayers are still heavily investing in these tributes today. We have found that, over the past ten years, taxpayers have directed at least $40 million to Confederate monuments—statues, homes, parks, museums, libraries and cemeteries—and to Confederate heritage organizations.Confederate sites play to the white supremacist imagination,” said Heidi Beirich, who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center’s work tracking hate groups. “They are treated as sacred by white supremacists and represent what this country should be and what it would have been” if the Civil War had not been lost.”
Carry me back to old Virginny,
There’s where the cotton and the corn and taters grow,
There’s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There’s where this old darkey’s heart am long’d to go.
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“Very little has been done to address the legacy of slavery and its meaning in contemporary life.”
That scathing assessment of the nation’s unwillingness to face the truth was issued recently by the Equal Justice Initiative, the Montgomery-based legal advocacy group that in April 2018 opened the first national memorial to victims of lynching.
Excerpted from Southern Poverty Law and Smithsonian
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