Just before white-ruled Rhodesia became black-ruled Zimbabwe, Peter Brimelow wrote an article for Human Events called “Ian Smith’s Rhodesia Is Worth Remembering.” After noting the West’s betrayal of the small white nation, he closed with this memorable line: “In the Rhodesians, we saw ourselves as we were and might have been. And we hated us.”
This year’s wave of desecration against statues memorializing men and women who bravely resisted a federal invasion is much the same. For blacks and other non-whites, this shows their power — it shows that their tribes are rising. And their white collaborators? They see the greatness of their ancestors — or racial kinsmen — and despise them for it. Even the smuggest must know they are nothing compared to titans such as Robert E. Lee or “Stonewall” Jackson.
Just as Eastern Europe began to do in 1991, one day America will begin to rebuild its identity and pride. There is no statue that cannot be replaced so long as memory is not extinguished. This is therefore not just a list of what came down, but a list of what must be remembered and will one day be resurrected.
Statue of Confederate Cavalry General Williams Carter Wickham in Richmond, VA. Destroyed by vandals on June 6. (Credit Image: Mojo Hand via Wikimedia)
Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Indianapolis, IN. Removed by the city on June 8. (Credit Image: Dominic via Wikimedia)
Confederate Major John Breckinridge Castleman in Louisville, KY. Removed by the city on June 8. (Credit Image: w.marsh via Wikimedia)
Confederate monument in Portsmouth, VA. Largely destroyed by vandals on June 10. (Credit Image: Doug Kerr via Wikimedia)
Confederate soldier Sam Davis on Montgomery Bell Academy’s campus in Nashville, TN. Removed by the school on June 12. (Credit Image: Montgomery Bell Academy)
Statue of Jefferson Davis in Frankfort, KY. Removed by the state on June 13. (Credit Image: Daderot via Wikimedia)
United Daughters of the Confederacy war memorial in front of the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, TX. Removed by the county on June 13. (Credit Image: Wilhelm Joys Andersen via Wikimedia)
Stand Watie (leader of the Confederate-allied Cherokee) and Confederate Soldier Fountain in Tahlequah, OK. Removed by the Cherokee nation on June 13. (Credit Image: Magnolia677 / Fæ via Wikimedia)
Statue of the “Reb” mascot of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Removed by the school on June 16. (Credit Image: Jason Vigil via Wikimedia)
Confederate monument in Norfolk, VA. Removed by the city on June 16. (Credit Image: Nyttend via Wikimedia)
Memorial to the unknown Confederate dead in Silver Spring, MD. Destroyed by vandals on June 17. (Credit Image: Lady Meg / Wikimedia)
Spirit of the Confederacy in Houston, TX. Removed by the city on June 17 and slated to be placed in the Houston Museum of African American Culture. (Credit Image: Brian Reading via Wikimedia)
Memorial to Company A, Capitol Guards in Little Rock, AR. Removed by the city on June 18. (Credit Image: Valis55 via Wikimedia)
Memorial to the Confederate dead in Raleigh, NC. Damaged by vandals and then fully removed by the city on June 19. (Credit Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel via Wikimedia)
Confederate Brigadier-General Albert Pike in Washington, DC. Destroyed by vandals on June 19. (Credit Image: Cliff via Wikimedia)
Confederate monument in Pine Bluff, AR. Removed by judicial decree on June 20. (Credit Image: Valis55 via Wikimedia)
Statue of Henry Lawson Wyatt — the first North Carolinian to die in combat during the Civil War — in Raleigh, NC. Removed by gubernatorial decree on June 21. (Credit Image: Daderot via Wikimedia)
Monument to North Carolina Women of the Confederacy in Raleigh, NC. Removed by gubernatorial decree on June 21. (Credit Image: Daderot via Wikimedia)
Monument to the Confederate dead in front of the Pitt County Courthouse, Greenville, NC. Removed by the county on June 22. (Credit Image: Joel Kramer via Wikimedia)
Confederate Soldier Monument in Denton, TX. Removed by the county on June 25. (Credit Image: carptrash via Wikimedia)
Monument to unknown Confederate Soldiers in Frederick, MD. Destroyed by vandals in late June. (Credit Image: Pollockdog via Wikimedia)
Statue of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, VA. Removed by the city on July 1. (Credit Image: Hal Jespersen via Wikimedia)
United Confederate Veterans memorial in Seattle, WA. Destroyed by vandals on July 3. (Credit Image: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia)
Gloria Victis (“Glory to the Defeated”) Confederate monument in Salisbury, NC. Removed by the city on the night of July 6–7. (Credit Image: Jon Platek via Wikimedia)
Confederate monument in front of the Anson County (NC) Courthouse. Removed by the county on July 8. (Credit Image: Indy beetle via Wikimedia)
Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Richmond, VA. Removed by the city on July 8. (Credit Image: Morgan Riley via Wikimedia)
Memorial to Confederate spy David O. Dodd in Little Rock, AR. Removed by the city on July 10. Credit Image: Valis55 via Wikimedia)
Robert E. Lee / Dixie Highway Confederate memorial, in Asheville, NC. Removed by the city and county on July 10. (Credit Image: Warren LeMay via Wikimedia)
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