(12-14-2022, 10:33 PM)p_rushing Wrote:

(12-14-2022, 02:04 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I’ve never understood Confederate monuments. They lost while supporting a ghastly cause. Why should they be memorialized?

I can understand moving AP Hill’s remains since the monument is gone.

You need to look past what we are generally feed from MSM. Most people didn't own slaves, even in the south. The war had nothing to do with salary until the North was on the verge of losing. The people weren't fighting a war so the elites in the South could own some slaves.

The elites may or may not have benefited from actually ending slavery. Being a slave sucks but at the same time you are valuable. The owner has to ensure you stay healthy, fed, and able to work or they get no return on their investment.

After slavery ended, the elites could then pay minimal and it didn't matter to them if you couldn't feed yourself or got sick. They could just hire the next worker.

So you have the people who supported the generals and then you have elites who were probably playing both sides. So I believe that's why you see these. It also helps to kept the people fighting each other instead of joining together against the elites like they had done in the forming of the nation.

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