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May 29th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show
Alabama does want to let go of their Confederate heritage so Governor Kay Ivey signed the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017. The law forbids the removal or any statues or renaming of streets or buildings that were named in memorial of Confederates who fought to preserve slavery during the Civil War.
State senator Gerald Allen, author of the bill, praised Governor Ivey for “standing up for the thoughtful preservation of Alabama’s history.”
Historically speaking, as Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States of America, once aptly put it , “slavery” is the “cornerstone” of the new Confederate government created after several states seceded from the Union (of which Alabama was one).
Allen continued on: “Contrary to what its detractors say, the Memorial Preservation Act is intended to preserve all of Alabama’s history ― the good and the bad ― so our children and grandchildren can learn from the past to create a better future.”
This law protects monuments such as an obelisk named after Confederate captain Charles Linn dedicated to Confederate soldiers in Birmingham’s Linn Park, an obelisk for a fallen Confederate in Anniston, and the Alabama Confederate Monument at the state Capitol in downtown Montgomery.
In response to this law , Rhonda Brownstein, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) stated: “These racist symbols have no place on government property, where they counter our nation’s core principle to ensure liberty and justice for all. Other states and municipalities are removing these monuments from public property and placing them in museums, where people can learn the full history of slavery, the Civil War and the Confederacy. That’s where they belong.”
Recently the city of New Orleans removed their Confederate monuments, much to the chagrin of white supremacists like Richard Spencer who held a KKK-style rally in support of preserving Louisiana’s racist and bigoted heritage.
Journalist Ilya Somin explained the problem this way: “The government should not honor people whose principal claim to fame is that they fought a bloody war in defense of the evil institution of slavery.”
Somin points out that “removing Confederate monuments does not require any ‘whitewashing’ of history” because this time period can be studied in history class and at museums.
The problem is white supremacists (whether they admit it or not) want to honor their Confederate ancestors in public, regardless of the fact that they fought and died to preserve the right of white men to own African men, women and children as if they were property such a couch or a car.
Susanne Posel
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