The good people of Helena, MT, are going to remove the Confederate memorial fountain in their fair city.

The Confederacy was defeated 25 years before Montana even became a state. Why would they memorialize the Confederacy other than to assert that people of color were not welcome? It was donated by Daughters of the Confederacy who supported the Klan

I'm so surprised at all these random places with Civil War monuments

There's one in Washington, but it's a private memorial on private land. It's there thanks to an asshole. Not public acceptance.

You have to realize that there are many pockets of supremacism in the NW. Idaho, Montana, Washington....there are places they gather, build compounds, pool monies, etc., to prepare for the day when...well, days like last weekend, when they can push their agenda more publicly.

Confederate Monument, State Capitol, Raleigh | NCpedia this is ours, and it's always been controversial

Yeah, OR and AZ, for example, welcomed the dead-enders of the Confederacy. Our Constitution prohibited Black ownership of land and businesses.

Ugh
https://www.inlander.com/Bloglander/archives/2017/08/15/why-east-wenatchee-has-a-robert-e-lee-elementary-school-and-why-it-wont-be-changing-its-name

Yes. It isn't about history, it's about Jim Crow and boot-to-the-face of racial and religious minorities. MOst of the "Confederate Statues" sprung up to reenforce Jim Crow - which was the last period of mass Intolerance in the US from 1886-1960. (Ushered in by a terrible series of SCOTUS decision that created the framework for it for nearly 70 years!).

Wow. I didn't know that about Wenatchee. I'd have believed it of Ellensburg, but...that's really sad.

There's a rally in NYC today to take down a statue of a doctor who bought black women to experiment on them.

It's a statue of this guy

J. Marion Sims - Wikipedia

yeah, I lived up the road from the robert e Lee school in Wenatchee and people where so damn proud of the school name. like insanely proud of it...was weird, to me.

because most of them were put up during the civil rights movement, LONG after the Civil war... fkg DoC

sorry the plurk just loaded if someone already said this

It seems a lot of The were donated by the daughters of the confederacy. There's one I Boston too

Lilly : Yes, they were strong supporters of the Klan. They were donated to make sure black people knew they were not safe.