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Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery (www.seattletimes.com)
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A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday.

The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”

I dunno, it sounds like the old Roman war memorials depicting their defeated enemies submitting to peace.

Edit: I just read the Wikipedia article describing the monument’s design and history. The sculptor was actually working in Rome, so the similarity to Roman monuments may not be accidental. But he was also using the monument to imply that Black slaves supported the Confederate cause, so the memorial’s removal is clearly appropriate.

[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago

That does sound more like a monument to their defeat than to the confederacy itself

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 20 points 10 months ago

A shame he stopped where he did. I'm sure that's a coincidence.

Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

[-] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, ok, fuck that. Tear the fucker down

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago

Do the next sentence too:

Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Yeah if we had treated them the way Rome treated it's conquests or if they had actually beaten their swords into plough shares this might be true.

Back in reality their great-grandchildren are trying to bring about civil war 2.

So no, this is a monument to an imaginary peace held by traitors that should be melted down into a monument to all the slaves who were forced to fight against their own freedom.

[-] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

Holy selective quotation, Batman!

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

The whole "lost cause" movement is about making it seem as if the Confederates were the "ethical" side, even though they lost. They symbology of the statue is heavily wrapped up in this concept - that even though the Confederacy was defeated, it was just and noble. Which, of course, implies that it would be noble to try again one day.

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