Major Right Wing Butt-Hurt Ensues

In 2021, the Congress commissioned the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America, better known as the, "Naming Commission," to find all assets and names with the Confederate treason, and select names for removal.

By all accounts, they did a pretty good job, and one of their recommendations was to remove the Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery.

The pro-treason, pro-segregation, pro-racism wing of the Congressional Republicans (Spoiler, that is all of them) are whinging mightily over this, as is Klan wannabe Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin:

A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday.

The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.

Safety fencing has been installed around the memorial, and officials anticipate completing the removal by Dec. 22, the Arlington National Cemetery said in an email. During the removal, the surrounding landscape, graves and headstones will be protected, the Arlington National Cemetery said.

Among other things, this means that the pedestal will remain, because removing that would involve a lot of digging. 

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin disagrees with the decision and plans to move the monument to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park in the Shenandoah Valley, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said.

Here is a better suggestion:  Melt the mother-f%$#er down, and cast it into a statue of William Tecumseh Sherman, Or Ulysses S. Grant, Or Abraham Lincoln.  (I'd suggest James Longstreet, who enthusiastically embraced the Union and emancipation after the civil war, but he's a Confederate, so no.)

No, I am not going to suggest that we recast the bronze into a statue of the poet Sappho of Lesbos, or Oscar Wilde, or Osh-Tisch (Finds them and kills them), because their memories should not be reduced to a crude troll.  (Also, no living people.  We should not erect monuments to people for at least a decade after their death)

As to why this memorial is problematic?

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Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

Yeah, kind of problematic.

It should also be noted that the cemetery was created on Robert E. Lee's estate as a "Screw You" to the traitor.

Remove the statue, and transfer it to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and allow them to choose the best way to dispose of this item.