Stop Taxpayer Funding of Racism!
Stop Taxpayer Funding of Racism!
The Issue
The battle over Richmond, Virginia Confederate monuments rages on. These monuments were erected and are maintained by the United Daughter's of the confederacy, a heritage group. Their headquarters is located here in Richmond, VA.
Founded in 1894, 30 years after the civil war, the UDC transformed military defeat into a political and cultural victory by the spread of Lost Cause propaganda and ideology. Confederate monuments were a huge part of the disenfranchisement of black people. The UDC was busiest during three important time periods. Records show that monument building peaked at these times.
* Late 1880's into the 1890's - civil war reconstruction
* 1900's into 1920's - Rise of the KKK and Jim Crow and the historical increase of lynchings.
* 1950's into the 1960s - centennial of the war and also the Civil Rights movement.
United Daughters of the confederacy has covert connections to the KKK. In the earlier years they wrote and published book and literature for the endorsements of the Klan. Including children's books. Today, taxpayer money is still distributed directly to UDC and they distribute funds to other "heritage groups" across the state including, Sons of Confederate veterans. In 1926 the UDC erected a monument to the KKK in North Carolina. As recently as August 2018, their website stated "Slaves, for the most part, were faithful and devoted. Most slaves were usually ready and willing to serve their master."
Starting in 1902, annual allocations for the care of Confederate monuments began yet has not been used to care for the graves of black solders or women. How have these racist ideas survived so long? They are funded by our money.
According to the Department of Historic Resources the General Assembly gave UDC $83,570 just in 2019. Nationwide in the last decade American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million to honor and glorify those who fought to maintain slavery.
UDC and their supporters argue that removing the statues is erasing history. They don't want the fabricated history they created to disappear along with their passive aggressive ways of white supremacy.
They collect and use taxpayer funding under the disguise of Historic preservation. This group deliberately misrepresents history while guided by their own self-deceit and willful ignorance. After losing the war they transformed themselves into victims and martyrs in order to preserve their racist ways of live. They brainwashed generations of children through doctored textbooks that were still in use well into the 1980's.
Why is an inaccurate portrayal of history being funded a century and a half after they lost? We memorialize their efforts to maintain oppression and resentments. Confederate memorial sites are treated as sacred to white supremacists. The Lost Cause ideals are the core belief of Neo-confederates despite the historical facts of the cause being completely inaccurate.
Taxpayers should not be paying for an invented history told by Confederates and retold by sympathizers for generations. Taxpayers should also not have to fight to remove these statues since they belong to us and not UDC. The are funded by the people and we have spoken.
Stop the funding of Southern Nationalists and propaganda. Stop the spread of portraying the Confederate States of America in a positive light.
This passive aggressive advocacy for white supremacy must stop! The UDC and it's subgroups represent a world that should no longer exist.
It's our money and we say no more to the United Daughters of the Confederacy!
Their cause is tainted and toxic and should be ended immediately.
Stop the hate! Stop the funding!
https://eji.org/news/costs-confederacy/
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title10.1/chapter22/section10.1-2211/
https://vacode.org/10.1-2211/
https://budget.lis.virginia.gov/item/2018/2/HB5002/Enrolled/1/374/
The Issue
The battle over Richmond, Virginia Confederate monuments rages on. These monuments were erected and are maintained by the United Daughter's of the confederacy, a heritage group. Their headquarters is located here in Richmond, VA.
Founded in 1894, 30 years after the civil war, the UDC transformed military defeat into a political and cultural victory by the spread of Lost Cause propaganda and ideology. Confederate monuments were a huge part of the disenfranchisement of black people. The UDC was busiest during three important time periods. Records show that monument building peaked at these times.
* Late 1880's into the 1890's - civil war reconstruction
* 1900's into 1920's - Rise of the KKK and Jim Crow and the historical increase of lynchings.
* 1950's into the 1960s - centennial of the war and also the Civil Rights movement.
United Daughters of the confederacy has covert connections to the KKK. In the earlier years they wrote and published book and literature for the endorsements of the Klan. Including children's books. Today, taxpayer money is still distributed directly to UDC and they distribute funds to other "heritage groups" across the state including, Sons of Confederate veterans. In 1926 the UDC erected a monument to the KKK in North Carolina. As recently as August 2018, their website stated "Slaves, for the most part, were faithful and devoted. Most slaves were usually ready and willing to serve their master."
Starting in 1902, annual allocations for the care of Confederate monuments began yet has not been used to care for the graves of black solders or women. How have these racist ideas survived so long? They are funded by our money.
According to the Department of Historic Resources the General Assembly gave UDC $83,570 just in 2019. Nationwide in the last decade American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million to honor and glorify those who fought to maintain slavery.
UDC and their supporters argue that removing the statues is erasing history. They don't want the fabricated history they created to disappear along with their passive aggressive ways of white supremacy.
They collect and use taxpayer funding under the disguise of Historic preservation. This group deliberately misrepresents history while guided by their own self-deceit and willful ignorance. After losing the war they transformed themselves into victims and martyrs in order to preserve their racist ways of live. They brainwashed generations of children through doctored textbooks that were still in use well into the 1980's.
Why is an inaccurate portrayal of history being funded a century and a half after they lost? We memorialize their efforts to maintain oppression and resentments. Confederate memorial sites are treated as sacred to white supremacists. The Lost Cause ideals are the core belief of Neo-confederates despite the historical facts of the cause being completely inaccurate.
Taxpayers should not be paying for an invented history told by Confederates and retold by sympathizers for generations. Taxpayers should also not have to fight to remove these statues since they belong to us and not UDC. The are funded by the people and we have spoken.
Stop the funding of Southern Nationalists and propaganda. Stop the spread of portraying the Confederate States of America in a positive light.
This passive aggressive advocacy for white supremacy must stop! The UDC and it's subgroups represent a world that should no longer exist.
It's our money and we say no more to the United Daughters of the Confederacy!
Their cause is tainted and toxic and should be ended immediately.
Stop the hate! Stop the funding!
https://eji.org/news/costs-confederacy/
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title10.1/chapter22/section10.1-2211/
https://vacode.org/10.1-2211/
https://budget.lis.virginia.gov/item/2018/2/HB5002/Enrolled/1/374/
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Petition created on June 29, 2020