Bowling Green: Not just the site of a massacre, it offers important lesson on Confederate statues
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After Donald Trump spent a good portion of last week defending Nazis and white supremacists, his supporters have been working overtime to change the conversation from racism to statues. And oddly enough, they’re attempting this pivot by talking about monumBowling Green: Not just the site of a massacre, it offers important lesson on Confederate statues
After Donald Trump spent a good portion of last week defending Nazis and white supremacists, his supporters have been working overtime to change the conversation from racism to statues. And oddly enough, they’re attempting this pivot by talking about monuments to racism. Go figure. But instead of standing up for the people who declared war on the United States of America in defense of slavery, an act that ultimately led to the death of more than 600,000 of its citizens, perhaps Trump and his minions should look back a bit further into history and remember what happened at Bowling Green. No, not the site of the massacre so horrible most Americans have blocked it from their memory, but what happened there in 1776, and what real patriots do to “honor” losers: A gilded lead statue of King George III was erected here in 1770 ... On July 9, 1776, after the first public reading in New York State of the Declaration of Independence, this monument was toppled by angry citizens, dragged up Broadway, sent to Connecticut, melted down, and recast as ammunition. It’s not clear if the ammunition made from the melted-down statue was later used in the Bowling Green Massacre … but to be fair, it’s also not clear if the massacre was in a park in New York City or a small town in Kentucky. So leaving all that aside, let’s stick with the main point here: Donald Trump was defending Nazis and white supremacists and anyone who tries to pretend otherwise and change the subject is defending Nazis and white supremacists. Period. Read more