wcaleb’s Twitter Archive—№ 16,157

…in reply to @Jdharden
@Jdharden Sure. I’d add, more seriously, that statues like this were themselves a distorted attempt to revise history in the service of Jim Crow.
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…in reply to @wcaleb
@Jdharden The date of this statue, which lauded the “heroes of the South,” coincided with the disfranchisement of black Texans by various means. +
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…in reply to @wcaleb
@Jdharden And it portrayed “the South” as fighting only for “states rights,” which was a way of erasing slavery from the history of the war. +
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…in reply to @wcaleb
@Jdharden Those quotes come from the plaque on the statue, pictured here: houstontx.gov/parks/artinparks/spiritoftheconfederacy.html
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