"Charlotte’s Monument to a Jewish Confederate Was Hated" Topic

… Even Before It Was Built

"From 1948 until just recently, residents and visitors to uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, could have strolled past a Confederate monument and not even known. On a busy, commercial street, in front of a FedEx store, the tombstone-like memorial honored Judah P. Benjamin, a Jewish southerner and the Secretary of State to the Confederacy. Though Benjamin had no connection to Charlotte—his only tie was a week he spent hiding there after the end of the Civil War—the United Daughters of the Confederacy presented the granite monument to the city, choosing the spot of his supposed few days in hiding.

As the monument itself explains, two local synagogues, whose names were inscribed on it, provided the funding. But almost immediately after its erection, the Jews of Charlotte regretted their decision after anti-Semitic comments led them to reconsider with whom they were associating themselves…"

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Armand

Worth reading closely! An epic piece of elegantly stitched together 21st century Woke "journalism".

B

Not to worry! Soon all statues & monuments will be torn down, even those of the victors! ;-)

First, remove the iconography….

I honestly did not get the point of that article at all. Is it about the monument being removed? Anti Semitism? Good Jews, bad Jews? All Confederates were white supremists. All modern white Southerners are white supremists? The history of Judah Benjamin?

If I had written that in College, I would have gotten my first D. But maybe today, that convoluted type of writing is given an A, sadly.

Glup!…

Armand