Confederacy and Slave Owning Presidents in America

The public domain in America is a profound space in our nation,this space is sacred in our nation, for most Americans the public domain is where the face of America is observed not only by its citizens but others from around the world.For centuries it has paid respect and tribute to America’s icons from presidents and inventors to social justice warriors.

Far too often the public domain is missing women, minorities and others who shaped America and its history, in truth many  public spaces in our nation  don’t capture the achievements of Non Whites and others. In fact many states today in America don’t have any public tributes and memorials or statues of Native Americans as well as Black and Brown heroes and heroines .

This betrayal of the public domain is often intentional and expressed to intimidate , discount and express contempt for the contributions to America by people of color and women. It is a public expression of exclusion and the affirmation of only the history of White Americans yet ignoring the genius and profound contributions of Non- Whites and Women of America.

The Confederacy memorials , street and building names do just that especially on the souls and humanity of Black Americans. Every memorial to the Confederacy erases the history of Black Americans while glorifying the very essence of the twisted Confederacy in our public domain.

The sheer volume of these Confederate statutes and the majestic stature of these monuments dictate and depict a state of worship and adoration for an America that would never respect the humanity of Black people in America.

Yet in the same breath so does the memorials ,  statues , buildings and street names of our presidents that owned and raped slaves. These offensive monuments don’t belong in the public domain any more than the Confederate tributes. In fact the hypocrisy of our presidents who owned slaves dwarfs that of any Confederate hero given the endless and hollow grand declarations of freedom, liberty and individual rights often articulated by these hypocritical presidents.

Apologists for these offensive presidential statutes hold no quarter nor standing when they proclaim the evil and racism of our presidents who owned and raped slaves deserve immunity and a pass because they were honorable figures and national heroes despite their twisted and inhumane legacies on Slavery. Many who deflect and make excuses for our slave owning presidents seek to make them deities and not subject to criticism and objective reviews and nor accountable for their moral deprivation.

Even now in America far too many want to sanitize their individual and collective inhumanity and engage in the worst of historical revisionist narratives. The script of racial amnesia in the portrayals of flawed human beings like our slave owning presidents is not worthy of being celebrated nor displayed in the public domain

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