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@1iceloops123 @delores @mangeurdenuage @sim Some of them could be preserved in historical sites. Mt Rushmore is certainly historical. The majority of these statues, on the other hand, were set up in the 1900s as threats to the local Black populations, and should have been removed by the state and local governments years ago.
I spent a few months working in #Mississippi (where the majority of the residents are Black), including in temporary federal offices in county courthouses. I can certainly tell you that _I_ didn't feel _history_ when I had to pass the Confederate monuments in front of those courthouses. I knew the fact that those statues were still in place was their way of saying they were not afraid to get out the rope.
Where the statues don't belong: places of honor, such as courthouses, schools, the state's capitol building.
Where the statues do belong: museums, historic monuments, cemeteries, sites of important events, such as Civil War battles.
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@sim @mangeurdenuage @1iceloops123 I do agree that the state or local government should be doing the removing. Unfortunately, those were the very institutions that both set up the statues and continue to maintain them. Both "remove all" and "remove none" are extreme positions that cannot be accomodated.