Every 'Racist' Confederate Statue the House Voted to Remove from Congress Is of a Democrat

Democrats are constantly talking about “having difficult conversations” and “acknowledging the evils of American history” — and yet, whenever they have the chance to wipe out a conversation starter, it is torn down, ripped out or burned to ashes.

This was again the case on Tuesday when the Democratic House majority — along with some Republicans — passed a bill to remove statues of Confederates from the Capitol, all of which happen to be commemorative of Democrats like former Confederate States President Jefferson Davis and former Chief Justice Roger Taney.

Amid an upsurge of illegal immigration at the southern border, a resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and a looming inflationary crisis, why is Congress debating which 150-year-old statues are allowed to stay?

Well, systemic racism, of course.

Per the U.K.’s Daily Mail, Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia argued that these Confederate statues indicate to black Americans that their lives do not hold value in our culture because the monuments “stood for the proposition that you were less than human.”

“It’s personally an affront to me as a black man to walk around and look at these figures and see them standing tall,” he added, “looking out as if they were visionaries and they did something that was great. No, they did something that was very hurtful to humanity.”

This happens to be a reasonable argument for removing Confederate statues. It also completely undermines the Democratic push to come to grips with the evils of our past.

How exactly are Americans to have these “difficult conversations” if all the reminders of those evils have been destroyed in the name of preventing offense — the sort of which always occurs during difficult conversations?

The answer is that we aren’t actually supposed to have these talks.

Should Confederate statues be removed from the Capitol?
Yes: 3% (9 Votes)
No: 97% (315 Votes)



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