An American monument that pays tribute to the slaves, retired after the manifestations of the anti -racist movement “Black Lives Matter”, will reinstall near Washington, announced the Minister of the United States, Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday, August 5.
Located in the Arlington Military Cemetery, the MEMORIAL Confederate paid tribute to the combatants of the Confederate states of America, defenders of slavery that fell during the civil war (1861-1865).
The “beautiful and historical sculpture” will return as it should be to the National Cemetery of Arlington “, announced in X Pete Hegseth, notoriously hostile to policies to promote racial or sexual diversities.
“It should never have been eliminated by Wake Sheep. Unlike the left, we do not believe that we should erase American history, we pay tribute to it,” he insisted on the head of the Pentagon.
Part of the monument eliminated in 2023
Since Donald Trump’s return to January to the presidency of the United States, the Government has led a battle against the initiatives that it says linked to the awakened ideology, a term used derogatory by conservatives to denounce what they perceive as an excess of activism in favor, in particular of minorities.
The bronze parties of the monument had been removed in 2023, three years after the anti -racist manifestations of the “Black Lives Matter” movement (the lives of blacks tell, in French), triggered by the murder of African -American George Floyd by a white policeman.
“A nostalgic and mythified vision” of the Confederates
This movement had begun significantly important debates about racism and the presence in the public space of the symbols of the past of the country’s slavery.
Among them, according to the activists, the Arlington Memorial appeared. He presented a “nostalgic and mitigated vision of the Confederates and included” very sweetened representations of slavery, “according to the cemetery website.
The Trump government has made a 180 degree turn. In June, the US President had announced, for example, that a series of military bases were going to be renamed for their previous names associated with confederate generals.
Source: BFM TV
