Miss. lawmaker: Leaders 'should be lynched' for taking down Confederate statues

[Alt-Orange]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/miss-lawmaker-leaders-should-be-lynched-for-taking-down-confederate-statues/ar-BBBoxjI?li=BBnb7Kz

Karl Oliver, a Republican state representative in Mississippi, last week said leaders in Louisiana who have removed Confederate statues and monuments from public property should be "lynched."

"If the, and I use this term extremely loosely, 'leadership' of Louisiana wishes to, in a Nazi-ish fashion, burn books or destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY, they should be LYNCHED! Let it be known, I will do all in my power to prevent this from happening in our State," Oliver wrote in a Saturday Facebook post.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Ah, the South

(don't say anything bad about those who want to murder people for tarnishing their admiration for those who fought to keep slavery alive)

[underthematrix]

2. poor thang. He needs an all access pass to ancestry.com

[BigDemVoter]

3. Yeah, those idiots down there know ALL about lynchings, don't they?

I guess it's all the practice they've had over the years.

Disgusting.

[Lil Missy]

4. interesting choice of words,...

"lynched"

[MosheFeingold]

5. Mixed feelings

Trying to hide the past makes it easier to fail on "never forget."

Bit like what to do with concentration camps. Part of me wanted to burn them all to the ground and plant trees. Another part wanted to preserve them so we remember.

And there is a further distinction between remembering and glorifying, which many of the monuments do, and which is objectionable.

And finally, some of the Confederate leaders were pretty admirable guys, albeit on the wrong side. Notably, Robert E. Lee. Lee was a racist (as was Lincoln and basically everyone at the time), but he wrote against slavery and actually did a fair amount to better the position of slaves and even repatriate educated former slaves to Liberia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee#Lee.27s_views_on_slavery

Anyway, long way of saying take each of these monuments on a case-by-case basis should be the best solution.