Fuck off Vert reynolds. Of course you're going to pull out numbers from your dumbass. You just love fake news huh?
And yeah FUCK those fucking statues. Would you be okay with having statues or Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un or Hitler placed around America? I don't fucking think so.
Anyone who disagrees with tearing down those worthless statues of losers are racist fucks.
i'm from the northeast and always kinda laughed at southerners and their clinging to civil war but you know what?
the vietnam war was a sham yet we have monuments to the poor bastards who were drafted into it.
every war ever has been fought by the poor [usually conscripted] at the behest of the rich and whether we agree w/ it or not we begrudgingly support the troops. i mean, i don't. if you sign up to play stupid games and win stupid prizes don't ask me for change cause your leg fell off.
but yeah, if it's a statue to the 'boys in grey' that's not exactly a glowing endorsement of racism. i actually can see how someone might not want to let go of the relic to their ancestor's suffering and sacrifice even if it were to continue slavery for other people in his geographic region. make no mistake, anyone who could afford slaves was not fighting in this war.
neither were all northerners anti-slavery heros. we got drafted to fight for the 'good guys' as history tells it while the poor people of the south got drafted by the bad guys.
i can see black folks being offended by it also but there's a bit more nuance than 'if you don't hate statues you're a racist and a bad man'.