Confederate monuments are ok, but lynching memorial monuments are going too far

[Belsnickel]

(05-02-2018, 04:11 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Statues in chains are way over the top. How about a memorial with names of those who endured or something a bit toned down.

The statue in chains is actually not the memorial itself. The memorial itself is one that contains the names, broken out by county, or all the verified lynchings in the country. They are on pillars that you walk among and down through, until you are looking up at them as one would look up at a lynching victim. That's the actual lynching memorial that they are talking about, but the other statues are artistic pieces showing the history of slavery in the country, which was pre-lynching era. People didn't tend to kill their chattel like that, they used lynchings after they were free to maintain a form of oppression on people, like a form of terrorism the threat of lynching hung over black communities.