https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/confederate-memorial-at-arlington-will-be-removed-despite-gop-opposition/ar-AA1lB9jU
I do lean on state rights on this one, but it's more along the lines of
People have a right to their stupid. What they seek, they get.
Having said that, I don't see how Republicans can win on this issue. It's often driven on
preserving our history and heritage and the belief the Democrats are trying to
erase our history. Even though like you're commemorating the confederacy
no matter how hard you try and say you're not. LOL. I think of it like getting upset when Democrats call you racist, but you want to preserve something that's racist. Well we're not racist(!). I think the Democrats have the Republicans by the balls on this one. (See bold at the very bottom for my point.)
(It appears they're removing it and placing it at a new park. Begging what was the point of spending all this money for??? It seems like this is a compromise.)
It portrays, according to the cemetery’s website, a “mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.”
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This month, 44 Republican lawmakers cautioned Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first African American to hold the post, that the Pentagon would overstep its authority by removing the memorial and they demanded that all efforts to do so stop until Congress works through next year’s appropriations bill. The memorial “commemorates reconciliation and national unity,” not the Confederacy per se, the group led by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.) claimed.
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They said out of an abundance of caution that security at the cemetery would be enhanced when the work begins in coming days.
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The Army is coordinating with the state of Virginia and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, a federal agency, to relocate it to New Market Battlefield State Park. The site is about 100 miles west of Arlington.
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That context must be understood, said Ty Seidule, a retired Army general who was the vice chair of the congressional commission that recommended the monument’s removal from Arlington. While Republican lawmakers described the marker as an ode to reconciliation, it was installed in what was then a racially segregated cemetery and molded in celebration of an emerging racial police state in the South.
“It’s incredibly ironic the party of Lincoln is the one doing this,” said Seidule, a historian and visiting professor at Hamilton College, describing the GOP effort to stop the marker’s removal. “It is the cruelest monument in the country because it is so clearly proslavery.”
