Mansa Musa owned slaves, and might have been the wealthiest person to ever live. If there was a statue of Mansa Musa standing in every major city in the world, people most likely wouldn't try to remove it. The image/idea that black people are marginalized and in need of saving by other groups is a relatively new one if you look at all of history, it's mostly just the last couple hundred years people came up with this image/idea. The reality is the people protesting the statues weren't doing it in the interest of humanity or human rights, they were doing it to support the agendas of the people they were following, especially the college dorks.
The image/idea that life is unfair to black people only nowadays is a recent development. The reality is life has always been unfair to most of the people living on the planet at any given time in history, no matter their sex, shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or personal beliefs about anything. People who try to get people to unify usually have a similar agenda to the ones who got them to divide in the first place. The Confederate statue protests are no different, the same ones trying to get people to divide try to get them to unify again before they wake up. The same ones that tear everyone and everything apart are the ones telling people they should be together on something.
by Solid Mantis October 8, 2020
Mansa Musa owned slaves, and might have been the wealthiest person to ever live. If there was a statue of Mansa Musa standing in every major city in the world, people most likely wouldn't try to remove it. The image/idea that black people are marginalized and in need of saving by other groups is a relatively new one if you look at all of history, it's mostly just the last couple hundred years people came up with this image/idea. The reality is the people protesting the statues weren't doing it in the interest of humanity or human rights, they were doing it to support the agendas of the people they were following, especially the college dorks.
The image/idea that life is unfair to black people only nowadays is a recent development. The reality is life has always been unfair to most of the people living on the planet at any given time in history, no matter their sex, shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or personal beliefs about anything. People who try to get people to unify usually have a similar agenda to the ones who got them to divide in the first place. The confederate statue protests are no different, the same ones trying to get people to divide try to get them to unify again before they wake up.
by Solid Mantis October 8, 2020
Mansa Musa owned slaves, and might have been the wealthiest person to ever live. If there was a statue of Mansa Musa standing in every major city in the world, people most likely wouldn't try to remove it. The image/idea that black people are marginalized and in need of saving by other groups is a relatively new one if you look at all of history, it's mostly just the last couple hundred years people came up with this image/idea. The reality is the people protesting the statues weren't doing it in the interest of humanity or human rights, they were doing it to support the agendas of the people they were following, especially the college dorks.
The image/idea that life is unfair to black people only nowadays is a recent development. The reality is life has always been unfair to most of the people living on the planet at any given time in history, no matter their sex, shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, political beliefs, or personal beliefs about anything. People who try to get people to unify usually have a similar agenda to the ones who got them to divide in the first place. The confederate statue protests are no different, the same ones trying to get people to divide try to get them to unify again before they wake up. The same ones that tear everyone and everything apart are the ones telling people they should be together on something.
by Solid Mantis October 8, 2020
Protesting a Confederate statue is not the same thing as protesting the death of a man in 2020. The death of George Floyd happened in Minnesota, a northern state, and was unrelated to the Civil War. The average soldier in the civil war wasnt fighting to defend slavery, since they weren't wealthy enough to own slaves. These were poor and middle class soldiers who were mostly concerned about their own families way of life, and not soldiers who thought that slavery or the way of life of a wealthy slaveowner was right. The civil war wasnt really about slavery in the first place, slavery just became Lincoln's public relations campaign cause to gain popular support so he could get control of the southern states back. Lincoln didnt really care about whether people were enslaved or not, yet black people treat him as a hero, and treat anything that even symbolizes the confederacy as the enemy because of what it represents, and not because any of these privates or enlisted confederate soldiers actually did any wrong to their people. It was the wealthy slaveowners and the slave traders who displaced them, tortured them, killed them, and sometimes the KKK, and with many unknown identities in the KKK, theres not much way to know whether many of the KKK had had any ties to the confederate army.
Statue protests are about as far off the subject of george floyd's death as you can get, but a lot of people want to think of anything and everything they hate at one time, instead of focusing on what they're really protesting for in the first place. People who think what was done to george floyd was wrong dont have to agree that anything else a protestor thinks must also be true because they're still angry about george floyd and lockdown all at once. A confederate statue outside of a courthouse is not the same thing as putting up a confederate statue in a black neighborhood, it wasnt put there for the reason some black people are saying it was put there, to stir them up. Theres a reason a statue of MLK is across the street from a confederate statue, if you want one removed, you might as well want them both removed, and say they all upset people too much to be remembered or heard about.
by Solid Mantis June 9, 2020
Statue protests never had anything to do with George Floyd's death. The one thing thing Confederate statues to George Floyd's death is strings of misinformation about what the Confederacy was and why there was a Civil War in America. America is not the only country that has ever had a civil war, and the reason is usually who gets what, not some idealistic and lofty cause like abolition or human rights.
Statue protests have as much to do with George Floyd's death as penguins have to do with the North pole.
by Solid Mantis December 4, 2020
Statue protests never had anything to do with George Floyd's death. The one thing thing Confederate statues to George Floyd's death is strings of misinformation about what the Confederacy was and why there was a Civil War in America. America is not the only country that has ever had a civil war, and the reason is usually who gets what, not some idealistic and lofty cause like abolition or human rights (as good as it sounds).
Statue protests have as much to do with George Floyd's death as penguins have to do with the North pole.
by Solid Mantis December 4, 2020
Statue protests never had anything to do with George Floyd's death. The one thing thing Confederate statues to George Floyd's death is strings of misinformation about what the Confederacy was and why there was a Civil War in America.
Statue protests have as much to do with George Floyd's death as penguins have to do with the North pole.
by Solid Mantis December 4, 2020