Confederate Monuments Desecrated In Los Angeles

The idea that the Left vs. Right divide is “fake and gay” is one of the dumbest thought killing clichés that I see circulating among “NS” activists online.

New York Times:

“A centaur is an uncanny thing, part-man, part-horse, that lives in a cave but trots through the city. In classical Athens — at the Parthenon, say — you often saw centaurs at war, their human arms entangled with their equine legs. They bellowed, they galloped, they carried off their victims. The centaurs were a half-civilized breed.

The artist Kara Walker has sculpted a disordered new centaur: an American centaur, American in its bones and in its burdens. Hers is a 13-foot-tall tumbledown bronze, with a man’s limbs and a horse’s haunches. One limb, clad in a Southern officer’s sleeve, droops alongside its four hooves and lets a sword clatter to the battlefield. Inch by soldered inch, from shoulder to hind shank, Walker’s horse and rider fuse from two beasts into one. Her centaur is tall, midstride but weary. It rattles its metal parts through American purgatory.

It’s titled “Unmanned Drone.” Walker completed it in 2023, though its constituent parts are much older: They belonged to a monumental equestrian statue of the Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, which stood for a century in Charlottesville, Va. After the “Unite the Right” rally of 2017, which began with neo-Nazis marching with torches and ended with a woman’s death, the City Council voted to bring the statue down. There were hearings. There were lawsuits. Walker got her hands on it almost five years later. …”

Guardian:

“In 2021, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia, finally removed the Confederate statues that had inspired a series of violent and eventually deadly white supremacist rallies in 2017.

The statue of Robert E Lee, which had been surrounded by white men with torches in a famous far-right propaganda image, was melted down. But the statue of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, which stood at the heart of a 2017 Ku Klux Klan rally, was given to a California-based arts non-profit, which pledged to use it for “transformation, not further veneration”.

Today, that same Jackson equestrian statue, chopped apart and reconstructed by American artist Kara Walker, is in Los Angeles, the centerpiece of a new art exhibit reckoning with the US’s white supremacist monuments. …”

Who is responsible for this?

Who vandalized all of these monuments?

Who were the politicians who took them down?

Who elected those politicians and supported desecrating our monuments?

Who were the donors who bought them and had them arranged to be paraded around like trophies in Los Angeles at the Geffen Contemporary space of the Museum of Contemporary Art?

It doesn’t happen without the support of the millions of White liberals and leftists who marched to abolish ICE last weekend and who now infest our cities. It is the same problem in Richmond, Baltimore, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, Charlottesville, Charleston, etc. When Joe Biden was president, he extended the campaign into renaming military bases named after Confederate generals.

Note: It is the same impulse that inspired taking the statute of Thomas Jefferson out of New York City Hall or attacking the monument of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol. It is the same impulse that motivates the cringe land acknowledgments at the DNC.

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