I'm the only person I know who has been to the Jefferson Davis Memorial

I was gonna say that the definition of a quandary would be: being a free speech advocate and a history buff living in our current times, but after thinking about it for a while? It's not really.

It's no accident that these statues and memorials to the confederacy were put on the lawns of courthouses and public parks etc. It was done to send a clear message of fear and intimidation. I mean, if your message is so great? Does it really need to come with fear and intimidation? Wouldn't people rally to it on it's own merit?

So now we can't even move these 1500 or so public displays to a non-public place like a museum or some kind of historical\educational facility without a bunch of  knuckledraggers getting their collective panties in a wad? Fuck 'em. Move em all. Hell, set up one museum and move all of them there so the history will be preserved. Think of the money that would be spent as infrastructure investment, creating jobs, tourism dollars and the like, I'm mean since were all about the free market and all :-). I'm not saying destroy them, just relocate them to a place tax payer money doesn't support them. Same position I have with the damn battle flag. You wanna fly one? Speaking as a free-speech advocate? Go right ahead, I got no problem with it, hell I'll help you put up your flag pole. Having peoples tax money pay for it to be flown over government offices and such? Total horse shit

I promise you I'd go to such a historical\educational facility if one ever existed, because I like the history and the stories behind the people. Doesn't mean I endorse an appalling economic system, just means I like history and the stories about the people, the tactics that were used etc. I'm the only person I know who has been to the Jefferson Davis Memorial yet anyone who really knows me knows I think racism is the equivalent of evil. BTW? that memorial would be hard to relocate given it's size. It's massive.

Here's something else to consider, In what other country would a region try to form it's own country through violent means, fail, and then still be allowed to have it's flag and memorials displayed to the world some 150+ years later? Where else would that fly?

I don't have answers, I really don't. My buddy was like, "Man four or five years ago it wasn't like this." My reply? "It's the times we live in." I wouldn't expect it to get better anytime soon. Another friend of mine posted all the cities where the alt-right is planning demonstrations and such. Given the incidents in Charlotte? Good luck getting a permit here sometime in the near future. Which, being a free-speech advocate I really don't like either, but I understand that legitimate public safety concerns outweigh your right to peacefully assemble. The key word here being, "legitimate".

These things just do not belong in public places anymore, they just don't. Put them where the people that want to see them can go and visit them. I just don't understand how that is trampling your so called blessed heritage etc? It's not. They would still exist, anybody that really wanted to could go see them.

Welcome to your new destiny. You're in the minority now. Chickens come home to roost much?

Pictures are mine.

(BTW? The Jefferson Davis memorial is the largest free standing non-rebar reinforced concrete structure in the world.)