(Ed.'S Note: Guess what? Brownsville, Texas has made it to the big time. We understand that local activists whose goal is to remove the monument erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1926 to Confederate States of American president Jefferson Davis from Washington Park have submitted it to the Southern Poverty Center for placement on their "Erasing Hate" list. They also say that they are in communication with the city commission to see what can be done about removing it and placing it in some museum that is not located on public property. This is far from over, folks.)
By Southern Poverty Center
In response to the tragic murders at Charleston’s “Mother Emanuel” A.M.E. Church by a Confederate flag-waving white supremacist, the Southern Poverty Law Center is launching a campaign to identify and erase government-sanctioned symbols of the Confederacy across the country.While many flags and other symbols are being taken down across the country, incredibly, many Southern states still honor Confederate “heroes” with paid holidays, and Confederate flags still fly in many public places and are emblazoned on city and state seals.
In fact, there are still statues, buildings and even a state park honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general who led a massacre of black Union soldiers and later led the Ku Klux Klan.
“The Confederate flag doesn’t just represent Southern ‘heritage,’ it’s a deeply divisive symbol used by racist groups, one that was raised above state capitols in the Deep South during the civil rights movement to show that they stood for white supremacy,” said SPLC Founder Morris Dees. “There’s no place for this or other symbols of the Confederacy in our public spaces.”
The SPLC is creating an interactive, online map of sites throughout the United States that honor the Confederacy or its leaders – people such as Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
To help us, please use our online form to send the Confederate names and symbols on public property in your town, and send us a photograph if possible.
We’re looking for Confederate statues or monuments; flags; government seals; patches on government uniforms; the names of parks, streets, schools, military bases or counties; school mascots; and other examples.
As part of the “Erasing Hate” campaign, we’re also preparing a community action guide to help local communities reach consensus on removing publicly supported symbols that represent the slave-holding South.
FAQ: Erasing Hate
Q: Why is Erasing Hate attempting to erase history?
A: The Erasing Hate campaign is not an effort to erase history. In fact, it relies on the historical record to help educate communities about Confederate symbols and how they have been used to represent the slave-holding South and white supremacist efforts to resist the civil rights movement. It encourages people to remind local governments that displaying these symbols in public spaces tacitly endorses the beliefs of the Confederacy and undermines confidence in a government’s ability to serve all of its citizens.
But these Confederate leaders and symbols should not be forgotten. They belong in our museums and history books. Erasing Hate encourages local governments to place these symbols in settings such as museums where people can learn the full history of the Confederacy.
For the full FAQ, click on link: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2015/08/02/splc-launches-%E2%80%98erasing-hate%E2%80%99-campaign
11 comments:
That rock looks really heavy. Gonna need at least two cases beer and maybe a tractor to move it
Fuckerville honors all! Didn't it note the passing of that 25-inch turd by Da Blimp? ja ja ja
What is talked about here is erasing history and not erasing hate. All the inverted talk can't change the truth. In trying to do a cleansing of Southern history and heritage, more hate will be created. This is not erasing hate, but a form of cultural vengeance.
If folks truly wanted to erase hate, then let everybody have their history and go forward in a spirit of love and understanding.
Morris Dees is a hate monger of the highest order.
The SPLC is a scam and as bad as real hate groups.
The poverty law center, known by its initials SPLC, is actually a money-making “scam”an Alabama lawyer who set out years ago to get rich on the backs of the poor and the duped. Morris Dees is a conman and a crook. “Poverty” quickly became enormously profitable. He was soon collecting millions and paying himself a salary far in excess of those paid to the heads of such advocacy groups as the ACLU, the Children’s Defense Fund and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
The director of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights, which defends poor defendants in death-penalty cases, once told Mr. Dees he was “a fraud and a con man” because of “your failure to respond to the most desperate needs of the poor and powerless despite your millions upon millions, your fundraising techniques, and the fact that you spend so much, accomplish so little, and promote yourself so shamelessly.”
Besides this marker is for Jefferson Davis' service to the United States if you actually take time to read it.
The only people against the SPLC are ultra-conservatives who are ok with discriminating against LGBT and minorities.
"The only people against the SPLC are ultra-conservatives who are ok with discriminating against LGBT and minorities."
That just has to be the most inane and stupid thing I have read on this blog yet, and it is replete with such knee jerk nonsense.
The discrimination lies when the one percent queers want the nine-nine percent to conform to their perverted wishes and demands. And half of the professors in our colleges and universities are the liberal acid heads of the sixties; the red diaper doper babies. You probably think socialism is the way to go to, huh el profe.
The world is burning and people are worried about monuments that offend them. There is no law that says you cannot be offended. These are your Liberal Morons that whine about everything. These are your ACLU folks (Anti-Christian Lawyers Union) who perpetually have their undies in a bunch. Par for the course. They are to be ignored because there is no substance to their diatribe.
Wait there's a monument to Jefferson Davis in Brownsville, that seems out of place. How much does it cost to ship a bolder to MISSISSIPPI? I love the justification of "it's to memorialize Jefferson Davis the soldier." Like that makes any difference. Well then let's make a monument to Joseph Stalin- America's wartime ally. Move to a museum, that way if those people want to travel all the way south to see a rock with Jefferson Davis' name on it, they'll have to pay the city a cover fee.
That's the thing about history, darn it, you can't erase it. No one is suggesting you move this artifact to the landfill so I don't quite understand the offense being taken. One hundred and fifty years after one of the most divisive periods in out history, the suggestion to respectfully move it to a museum is appropriate. And hey, lucky for us, there's a museum just down the street. Tanto wato:)
Just Google it. Link Below. Doesn't matter for shit. Marker stays.
"The answers to these questions are complex, and historians have been arguing for some time over whether free blacks purchased family members as slaves in order to protect them -- motivated, on the one hand, by benevolence and philanthropy, as historian Carter G. Woodson put it, or whether, on the other hand, they purchased other black people "as an act of exploitation," primarily to exploit their free labor for profit...."
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/03/black_slave_owners_did_they_exist.html
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