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Trump tweeted about his sadness over the loss of "beautiful" Confederate statues. He again equated a man who fought to create the United States with a man who knowingly fought o destroy the United States. Robert E. Lee could have led the Union Army. His sister's son fought for the Union. 40% of Virginia fought for the Union. Robert E. Lee chose to be a terrorist.
Trump champions the "Lost Cause". It is not surprising that he is unaware of why many of these Confederate statues were erected. Take the Robert E. Lee statue in Baltimore as an example. The statue was erected in 1948. The statue was meant to intimidate black soldiers and sailors returning home from World War II. It served as a reminder to those black men and women that white people were still in control
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/confederate-monuments-history-trump-...
The Baltimore statue is gone. I suspect there is a similar sad history for other statues honoring the Confederacy.
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Just another example of his idiocy to anyone with knowledge of what's happening with most of the art involved.
Bet he doesn't realize that museums don't display all the stuff they have at one time, that it stays in storage until it's appropriate to put it in a curated show.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/17/2017 - 4:36pm
In the West we proudly have advanced past the Taliban blowing up iconography we don't like.
Robert E. Lee's great-great grandson and others splain for Trump how this art history thing works
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/17/2017 - 5:02pm