Historians Just Closed Out 2020 & Gave This Alarming Stat About Cancel Culture On U.S. History

Written By BlabberBuzz | Wednesday, 24 February 2021 02:50 PM
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Historians Just Closed Out 2020 & Gave This Alarming Stat About Cancel Culture On U.S. History

Last year saw 168 symbols of the Confederacy (which includes some of America's most storied leaders & generals from before the Civil War, people who contributed to what this great nation is today) torn down by the cancel culture progressive mob. No where has this been more apparent than in the Capitol itself.

When rebels tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, many of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t face a statue of the most famous rebel general, Robert E. Lee.

The Lee statue, which represented the state of Virginia as a portion of the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol for 111 years, had been taken down only weeks before — one of at least 160 public Confederate figures removed or moved from public areas in 2020, according to a new count the Southern Poverty Law Center shared with The Associated Press before publishing it.

The law center, which holds a raw count of almost 2,100 statues, symbols, placards, buildings, and public parks devoted to the Confederacy, intends to release the latest figures from its “Whose Heritage?” database on Tuesday. It has been tracking a movement to take down the statues since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and murdered several Black parishioners.

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“These racist symbols only serve to uphold revisionist history and the belief that white supremacy remains morally acceptable,” SPLC chief of staff Lecia Brooks stated. “This is why we believe that all symbols of white supremacy should be removed from public spaces.”

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Sometime after visitors and tourists are greeted back to the U.S. Capitol, there will be a statue representing Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over uneven conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her efforts directed to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, through the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education.

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Each state legislature can pick up two representatives to honor in the Capitol’s collection. In December, a state commission suggested ousting Lee’s statue with a statue of Johns. Supporters explained that Virginia's legislature has almost ended her elevation alongside George Washington.

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Joan Johns Cobbs, Barbara Johns’ younger sister, is euphoric regarding the future honor. She’s also glad it hadn’t occurred before Jan. 6, when the Capitol was breached.

“You can’t imagine how sad I was seeing what was happening in the Capitol building,” Cobbs announced. “I was saying to myself, ‘Oh, my God. I’m kind of glad her statue wasn’t there already.’ I wondered what would have happened.”

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Long seen as offensive to Black Americans, Lee’s Capitol statue wasn’t the only one portraying a figure from the Lost Cause, a term referring to a view that fighting on the side of slaveholders in the Civil War was just and noble. Jefferson Davis, who worked as president of the Confederate States of America before becoming a U.S. senator from Mississippi, is one of two figures representing that state in the Capitol.

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