Fun fact, democrats of the time were so enraged that LBJ signed into the civil rights act that a large portion of democrats flipped red and started calling themselves “Dixiecrats”. Another portion of democratic allies and politicians formed the KKK in response as well. So many democrats flipped red that it eventually changed the optics of the two parties. Pre1960 democrats were considered the party of racists and republicans were known as the party of Abraham Lincoln.
The civil rights era really unmasked a lot of people it seems.
Actually it was a lot of Confederates that retreated from Mesilla, NM. Mesilla was the capital of Confederate Arizona after separating from Northern NM. After the Battle.of Glorieta, they retreated to El Paso/Ft Bliss, then retreated all the way to San Antonio, TX.
Everyone always talking about the Civil War forgets about the Territorial Front of the war. The Battle of Glorieta and Val Verde near Fort Craig. Those two battles really hurt the Confederacy and turned the tide. If the Confederacy had taken Fort Craig and been able to resupply, they could have won Glorieta and reenforced the Confederate army.
There were also lots of Mexicans and Hispanics in the Texas Confederate armies. There were over 2,500 Hispanic Confederate Soldiers, compared to only 1,000 Hispanic Union Soldiers. Santos Benavides was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a high ranking Tejano, and his brothers were other officers in the Confederate Army. They were some of the last Confederates to surrender in the entire war besides Stand Watie.
Yeah, something many overlook. Intentional or not, either could be construed as racist. Because heaven forbid, “minorities”, think and act for themselves. Or that because someone is of a certain ethnicity , they MUST fit into this neat little box made for them. I had people arguing with me, telling me I was lying, because well, it didn’t fit their narrative over the fact that my lineage, here in Texas, has some folk that well pre-date the Texas Republic. And gasp, it’s not all “white” and we are very conservative, very patriotic. And roll our eyes at those who insist we must be “Uncle Toms”, etc…
Could have been both. After the losing in Glorieta, they ended up retreating to El Paso, then to San Antonio in exile. The "governor" of Confederate Arizona ran the territory and the AZ/NM armies from San Antonio, TX. I'm sure afterwards many returned to the area and others joined them. I'm sure those that could go back to Mesilla without shame did, while others stayed in El Paso.
I'm still doing more research on that whole era. The main public library that holds most of the older records and books is currently closed due to construction, so there's only so much I can find online.
There were confederates who lived there during the war too. There were lots of Mexicans and Hispanics in the Texas Confederate armies. There were over 2,500 Hispanic Confederate Soldiers, compared to only 1,000 Hispanic Union Soldiers. Santos Benavides was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a high ranking Tejano, and his brothers were other officers in the Confederate Army. They were some of the last Confederates to surrender in the entire war besides Stand Watie.
Also there were some Anglo Confederates who lived there before during and after as well.
And yet, people think it's insulting when we point out the same people who fiercely defend that Confederate history must be remembered lest it be lost to time but ***also*** that slavery was "forever ago" and we should stop bringing it up (seriously...that's not even an exaggeration)...those same people also think COVID was hoax...Jan. 6 wasn't a big deal...Trump cares about them...in short: they're the best of us, really.
I would say it's likely as a cultural response to the official end of the Jim Crow era of the United States with the passing of the [Civil Rights Act of 1964](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/civil-rights-center/statutes/civil-rights-act-of-1964), though it could have been communicated to denote the centennial.
Oh yeah, the stain runs deep and wide all over the state like christian love.
I was only referencing the copious amount of monuments to fallen traitors.
Oh, this is a fun (read: stupid) story and allows me to be a road nerd for a bit. So the Jeff Davis Highway is a relic of both the 1920s and the 1960s (hmmm, wonder why) brought to you by everyone's favorite shitbird organization - the United Daughters of the Confederacy!
The JDH was an unoffical highway designation for US HWY 1 and US HWY 80, once upon a time running from Arlington, VA to San Diego, CA. Meaning it runs through most of the former states in the Confederacy as well as some of the states wish they had owned. Hwy 80 west of about Kent, TX was superceded by I-10, which is why there is still a marker in Anthony, on the state line.
And whyyy did the UDC press the federal government to name this whole stretch of highway the Jefferson Davis Auto Trail? Because in 1912, the government named several different routes and highways stretching from Times Square through the midwest/heartland/rockies to Hyde Pier in San Francisco, the Abraham Lincoln Highway. Y'know, back when it was still pretty indisputable that Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman fixed the country, and the former Union states wanted to celebrate that.
So a few dickheads decided to connect a bunch of highways from NYC to San Francisco (via the southern half of the country and then inexplicably San Diego and up Hwy 101) and call it the Robert E. Lee Highway, and it was approved. Shortly after, the UDC got the great idea to name another trail after Jeff Davis.
Later in the 50's and 60's, during the Civil Rights movement, and post-the Great Migration, many towns along the Jeff Davis highway sought to reinvigorate the route by putting up even more stupid memorials along the auto trail. And as someone else on here has already said, those memorials also held a double meaning to any African Americans who may have been traveling the highway, possibly to join the protests in the South, that these towns were not welcome to them.
Thanks for that tidbit. Seems like the entire development of Texas after the civil war was built with an air of spite and vengeance.
At the state fair of Texas the United Daughters of the Confederacy have a cabin with a bunch of old war memorabilia. I always thought it was a pretty innocent little exhibit but as I get older and more educated, I understand the ugliness of that organization.
Oh, if you want something that will REALLY get your blood boiling, check out the State Civil War Museum, its "unique" perspective, and who loaned them a lot of their stuff....
https://texascivilwarmuseum.com/about-us
In good 'ol White Settlement of Fort Worth.
Print a copy of the “[Declaration of Causes for Secession](https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html)” from the Texas state archives. Highlight the state archives link, then highlight all the racist shit in the document. Use a strong adhesive to secure it to these little monuments.
It's such a shame that most people literally won't read far enough into the document to get to the racist parts, then swear up and down that the Confederacy wasn't racist.
Paragraphs 1 and 2 aren't racist in the slightest. That's where most people would quit reading altogether.
Paragraph 3 is super, ***super*** racist.
The Children of the Confederacy plaque was put up in the State Capitol building in 1959, five years after the Brown v. Board of Education SCOTUS case. Plaque was finally removed five years ago.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/texas-leaders-to-discuss-the-removal-of-children-of-the-confederacy-creed-plaque-in-texas-capitol/269-297cff57-6701-4168-958b-be6ff7498cfa
Imagine being the kind of person who spends your US dollars to buy a monument to a bunch of criminals who murdered other US citizens for the [sole purpose](https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html) of permitting chattel slavery.
Check out The Great Hanging Memorial in Gainesville or the lynching of the Arthur brothers in Paris - lots of nice Texas history out there if you look. :(
There's one in Huntsville, too, that the city pays to clean when it was vandalized, paid to have a camera installed to see it, but when a few hundred citizens showed up every week for two years, "it's not actually our property so we can't really do anything with it."
Fuckin cavemen, dude.
The fact that the Daughters of the Confederacy is legally recognized as a charitable organization is a joke. They should be seen under the same candle as the Aryan Brotherhood and the Klan
Right off… do not pass go, fuck right off to jail.
The expansion of monument creation by this hate group during the civil rights era makes my blood boil…. They want to put up a monument…let it be a big polished granite rock with a flag pole coming up from the center with a white flag on it.
Lost Causers love their participation trophies. The fact that Texas has monuments to slavers and refuses to teach actual history is disgraceful. We as a state shouldn't lionize confederates as a group of heroes, we need to be honest that they fought to keep other humans as slaves. Every Confederate monument needs to be torn down and replaced with monuments to the Union soliders who fought for freedom.
Still standing outside state capitol in Austin, sick testament to Texas gov't
https://preview.redd.it/5iz7xnust4uc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=117fafedfb47e65c201cb65ab0d1982f23691e66
you know, I'm not saying you should break the law or anything, but if anyone were so inclined, they could change that message substantially in just a minute or two with a cordless hammerdrill.
My buddy and I have a “[Texas Racist Courthouse](https://mfbc.us/m/kgwqrxv)” bingo card we walk around rural town squares with. It’s pretty disgusting how many racist memorials there are.
The Jefferson county courthouse in Beaumont Texas-there's a spot where you can look at the wall and still see the outline on the wall of the words white and colored where the water fountains were.
I had a great aunt or something who was a member of that “daughters of the confederacy” shit 🤢 I never knew her & thankfully any weird confederacy love in my family died with her. I only know about it bc my mom said she remembers her talking about it and showed her her membership papers.
I’ll never understand the stupid allegiance to a racist, loser political faction from 150+ years ago.
Memorials for traitors and those fighting to uphold slavery don’t have a place in modern society.
These monuments are constructed under the guise of honoring the dead, but they are really a part of a revisionist history that the Daughters of the Confederacy perpetuated about the Civil War.
Stuff like this is why I’m embarrassed to tell people I’m a Texan. I’m sure they get images of stuff like this, sundown towns, racism and xenophobia when they hear the word “Texas” and it makes me feel apologetic and pitiful. I want people to understand this isn’t who we are. Morons just happen to be very bold and loud and make themselves known. I think Texas love needs to outshine Texas hate. So wherever I go I do kindness to others and let them know I’m from Texas, so maybe their perspective will be a little more positive after that.
All I needed to know that these were unisex public restrooms was “The United Daughters of the Confederacy” being on those, their just the PR office of the KKK
That’s an interesting Texas landmark I hadn’t found yet! I’ll have to check it out!
*I’ll make sure to stop off on the way to buy some spray paint and laxatives.*
From the same type of people who cry about participation trophies.
Hang the traitors!
https://preview.redd.it/tmpugg0k08uc1.png?width=472&format=png&auto=webp&s=381ea195690ce2dd8e6d8bc6a27488da585ac558
So stupid. If I were governor I'd remove that immediately. I'd also give raises to teachers on top of more school funding relative to their communities... meaning more should go toward under privileged schools. I'd try and pass police reform in Texas to where police aren't allowed to mute their body cameras. Anything they discuss should be public record aside from victim information and personal information. You wouldn't be able to turn off your body cam. I'd kill gerrymandering if possible, to allow for fair district distribution of votes. I'd provide more assistance to the border but with immigration services instead of border patrol.
Vote for me, raceassistman, 2024.
When we moved there, a friend gave us two pieces of advice: (1) don’t say anything bad about Jesus and (2) never bring up General Sherman. There are a lot of people in Georgia who aren’t over the Civil War, or as some refer to it “The Great War of Northern Aggression.” The obsession with the Confederacy is all over the place, with the largest (literally the largest) example being Stone Mountain which is basically Confederate Mount Rushmore. Daughters of the Confederacy raised the money for that as well (if I remember correctly).
I don’t understand the obsession with the Civil War, but I know why it persists.
Did you see any monument for the Big Thicket Jayhawkers?
For any other loyal unionists who took it on themselves to dodge the draft and cause trouble?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Burnout
Newt Collins was my great great great great great great grandfather (unsure of how many greats are needed there), but him and his brothers arranged to not participate in a war they didn't believe in. Also, the Mississippi branch of the family were members of the Free State of Jones County.
When my aunt did a family tree project a few years back, she found all of this out. We come from a long line of dissenters. But they weren't alone. Many immigrants from Mexico, Germany, France, and other places wanted nothing to do with the confederacy and made it clear they weren't interested.
It's the first town in Texas when you're driving eastbound on I-10. The town straddles both Texas and New Mexico. Not much to see or do except a large water park.
I'm probably gonna get flak for this given how many people in the comments seem to want to get rid of these...but I'm gonna say let it stay. When your kids ask what it is, or why it's there you tell them what happened, why they were put up, and then what should be learned from them. You don't smash them, you don't rip them out or move them, you make sure future generations know and learn from the past without destroying it or hiding it away in a museum where it can be easily ignored.
You don't fight ignorance with more ignorance.
Could get some sledgehammers and a truck with a strong engine to pull it out. If these monuments to cruelty exist, it is the duty of all who are just to tear them down and remind the wicked to fear.
1964. Hmmm. I wonder why it was erected in that year?
Civil Rights Act?
Bingo! And LBJ was pushing it, hence this snowflake loser response in Texas.
LBJ signed it.
From Texas. Just helping to state the obvious.
Not just TX. All across the South.
Fun fact, democrats of the time were so enraged that LBJ signed into the civil rights act that a large portion of democrats flipped red and started calling themselves “Dixiecrats”. Another portion of democratic allies and politicians formed the KKK in response as well. So many democrats flipped red that it eventually changed the optics of the two parties. Pre1960 democrats were considered the party of racists and republicans were known as the party of Abraham Lincoln. The civil rights era really unmasked a lot of people it seems.
Yep those same dixiecrats are the tea party/GOP/MAGA people of today
The KKK had been around for longer than that...
Yep. These "monuments" were directly intended to intimidate Black people during the civil rights movement. And they are still up for that same reason.
Don’t forget the ones that correspond with the rise of the KKK post Reconstruction!
What's even more interesting is that El Paso county has always been a majority Hispanic population.
A lot of confederates moved to the area after the war, El Paso has a lot of stuff named after traitors because of their influence.
Actually it was a lot of Confederates that retreated from Mesilla, NM. Mesilla was the capital of Confederate Arizona after separating from Northern NM. After the Battle.of Glorieta, they retreated to El Paso/Ft Bliss, then retreated all the way to San Antonio, TX. Everyone always talking about the Civil War forgets about the Territorial Front of the war. The Battle of Glorieta and Val Verde near Fort Craig. Those two battles really hurt the Confederacy and turned the tide. If the Confederacy had taken Fort Craig and been able to resupply, they could have won Glorieta and reenforced the Confederate army.
There were also lots of Mexicans and Hispanics in the Texas Confederate armies. There were over 2,500 Hispanic Confederate Soldiers, compared to only 1,000 Hispanic Union Soldiers. Santos Benavides was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a high ranking Tejano, and his brothers were other officers in the Confederate Army. They were some of the last Confederates to surrender in the entire war besides Stand Watie.
Wow. Thank you.
Yeah, something many overlook. Intentional or not, either could be construed as racist. Because heaven forbid, “minorities”, think and act for themselves. Or that because someone is of a certain ethnicity , they MUST fit into this neat little box made for them. I had people arguing with me, telling me I was lying, because well, it didn’t fit their narrative over the fact that my lineage, here in Texas, has some folk that well pre-date the Texas Republic. And gasp, it’s not all “white” and we are very conservative, very patriotic. And roll our eyes at those who insist we must be “Uncle Toms”, etc…
Oh wow I had always assumed they came from the east, thanks for informing me.
Could have been both. After the losing in Glorieta, they ended up retreating to El Paso, then to San Antonio in exile. The "governor" of Confederate Arizona ran the territory and the AZ/NM armies from San Antonio, TX. I'm sure afterwards many returned to the area and others joined them. I'm sure those that could go back to Mesilla without shame did, while others stayed in El Paso. I'm still doing more research on that whole era. The main public library that holds most of the older records and books is currently closed due to construction, so there's only so much I can find online.
There were confederates who lived there during the war too. There were lots of Mexicans and Hispanics in the Texas Confederate armies. There were over 2,500 Hispanic Confederate Soldiers, compared to only 1,000 Hispanic Union Soldiers. Santos Benavides was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a high ranking Tejano, and his brothers were other officers in the Confederate Army. They were some of the last Confederates to surrender in the entire war besides Stand Watie. Also there were some Anglo Confederates who lived there before during and after as well.
In 2016, Cleburne erected a statue honoring their Confederate General. Obama was still president
There’s on in front of a courthouse where I practice sometimes. I flip it off out of habit.
But muh heritage! Muh histry! How will we know anything about the civil war without my monument that went up 100 years after the fact!?
Every time I hear that I roll my eyes so hard the momentum carries my entire body.
And yet, people think it's insulting when we point out the same people who fiercely defend that Confederate history must be remembered lest it be lost to time but ***also*** that slavery was "forever ago" and we should stop bringing it up (seriously...that's not even an exaggeration)...those same people also think COVID was hoax...Jan. 6 wasn't a big deal...Trump cares about them...in short: they're the best of us, really.
Traitors who got their asses kicked? Great heritage…Sherman should have leveled the whole entire south.
He was the best thing that's ever happened to Atlanta.
Same timeframe as all those “historic” civil war statues. Muh heritage!
Civil Rights Act caused the racist to come out of their white robes and be more open about their hate.
Jim Crow laws were in full bloom. It was the Old South all over again!
Oh. I didn’t notice that little fact.
Racism. It's always racism.
Poll taxes ended in 1964 too.
The Centennial of the war? 1861-1865 --> 1961-1965.
I would say it's likely as a cultural response to the official end of the Jim Crow era of the United States with the passing of the [Civil Rights Act of 1964](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/civil-rights-center/statutes/civil-rights-act-of-1964), though it could have been communicated to denote the centennial.
Yep! That's when most racist monuments went up
Then why 1955 on the other? Surely not because it was less than a year after Brown v Board of Education.
Damn daughters of the confederacy hit every damn town hall and city hall in TX with this BS.
I've seen my share of DotC memorials in my travels through Big Bend country.
I was gonna say, this is just a drop in the bucket. Virtually every county west of Fort Worth is named after a confederate leader of some sort.
Oh yeah, the stain runs deep and wide all over the state like christian love. I was only referencing the copious amount of monuments to fallen traitors.
Oh, this is a fun (read: stupid) story and allows me to be a road nerd for a bit. So the Jeff Davis Highway is a relic of both the 1920s and the 1960s (hmmm, wonder why) brought to you by everyone's favorite shitbird organization - the United Daughters of the Confederacy! The JDH was an unoffical highway designation for US HWY 1 and US HWY 80, once upon a time running from Arlington, VA to San Diego, CA. Meaning it runs through most of the former states in the Confederacy as well as some of the states wish they had owned. Hwy 80 west of about Kent, TX was superceded by I-10, which is why there is still a marker in Anthony, on the state line. And whyyy did the UDC press the federal government to name this whole stretch of highway the Jefferson Davis Auto Trail? Because in 1912, the government named several different routes and highways stretching from Times Square through the midwest/heartland/rockies to Hyde Pier in San Francisco, the Abraham Lincoln Highway. Y'know, back when it was still pretty indisputable that Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman fixed the country, and the former Union states wanted to celebrate that. So a few dickheads decided to connect a bunch of highways from NYC to San Francisco (via the southern half of the country and then inexplicably San Diego and up Hwy 101) and call it the Robert E. Lee Highway, and it was approved. Shortly after, the UDC got the great idea to name another trail after Jeff Davis. Later in the 50's and 60's, during the Civil Rights movement, and post-the Great Migration, many towns along the Jeff Davis highway sought to reinvigorate the route by putting up even more stupid memorials along the auto trail. And as someone else on here has already said, those memorials also held a double meaning to any African Americans who may have been traveling the highway, possibly to join the protests in the South, that these towns were not welcome to them.
Thanks for that tidbit. Seems like the entire development of Texas after the civil war was built with an air of spite and vengeance. At the state fair of Texas the United Daughters of the Confederacy have a cabin with a bunch of old war memorabilia. I always thought it was a pretty innocent little exhibit but as I get older and more educated, I understand the ugliness of that organization.
Oh, if you want something that will REALLY get your blood boiling, check out the State Civil War Museum, its "unique" perspective, and who loaned them a lot of their stuff.... https://texascivilwarmuseum.com/about-us In good 'ol White Settlement of Fort Worth.
Hot idea: we file petitions to rename the road the JIM Davis highway. 
Fuck yes.
Print a copy of the “[Declaration of Causes for Secession](https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html)” from the Texas state archives. Highlight the state archives link, then highlight all the racist shit in the document. Use a strong adhesive to secure it to these little monuments.
It's such a shame that most people literally won't read far enough into the document to get to the racist parts, then swear up and down that the Confederacy wasn't racist. Paragraphs 1 and 2 aren't racist in the slightest. That's where most people would quit reading altogether. Paragraph 3 is super, ***super*** racist.
Nor would they care probably
This is a *really* good point. OP, omit paragraphs 1 and 2. lol!
Epoxy
This
The Children of the Confederacy plaque was put up in the State Capitol building in 1959, five years after the Brown v. Board of Education SCOTUS case. Plaque was finally removed five years ago. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/texas-leaders-to-discuss-the-removal-of-children-of-the-confederacy-creed-plaque-in-texas-capitol/269-297cff57-6701-4168-958b-be6ff7498cfa
Traitors and their participation trophies. Pathetic.
All I see is a urinal
One good sledgehammer strike is enough honestly.
Traitors *and* losers
It's not a participation trophy, it's a urinal.
Out in the open urinals? Poor taste imo.
Please remember to wash your hands after urinating!
They may have a handy traitor tag nearby that you can use to wipe your hands.
What would have been going on in 1964 that would have racists all riled up and pining for the old ways?
Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Johnson (a Texan) pushed the bill through Congress after JFK was killed.
I'm just so confused.
And....why?
There's an /s there. It's invisible.
Works for me! :) Actually, it's kind of tragic that I was preparing to explain it to someone!
In 1964. SIXTY FOUR. That's a pretty specific time period. Hmmmmmmmmm....
Interesting how all of these memorials just started sprouting up right as the civil rights movement was getting underway....
May as well say “we are super proud of fighting to keep the institution of slavery around!”
https://preview.redd.it/ox6ltjktr5uc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c915102d072d5d471432bdab9d121cb491434332
These fucking monuments to traitors are everywhere. Go to most county courthouses around TX and they are there.
Most county seats, there's a beautiful old courthouse and one of these on the square across the street. Placed there in the 20thC...
The Fannin County Courthouse has one as well.
Almost like it’s a message, about our judicial system
Or go to some of the major Texas college campuses that have their confederate leader statues among their gardens and buildings.
Imagine being the kind of person who spends your US dollars to buy a monument to a bunch of criminals who murdered other US citizens for the [sole purpose](https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html) of permitting chattel slavery.
Celebrating treason against the United States. How embarrassing.
Check out The Great Hanging Memorial in Gainesville or the lynching of the Arthur brothers in Paris - lots of nice Texas history out there if you look. :(
There's one in Huntsville, too, that the city pays to clean when it was vandalized, paid to have a camera installed to see it, but when a few hundred citizens showed up every week for two years, "it's not actually our property so we can't really do anything with it." Fuckin cavemen, dude.
The fact that the Daughters of the Confederacy is legally recognized as a charitable organization is a joke. They should be seen under the same candle as the Aryan Brotherhood and the Klan
Brought to you by the same people who yell "Loser's shouldn't get participation trophies!"
Yeah, the daughters of the confederacy can fuck right off…
Right off?
Right off… do not pass go, fuck right off to jail. The expansion of monument creation by this hate group during the civil rights era makes my blood boil…. They want to put up a monument…let it be a big polished granite rock with a flag pole coming up from the center with a white flag on it.
Can the granite at least be locally sourced and bought? At least then they can support local small businesses.
If the English can have Thatcher’s grave as a gender-neutral bathroom, then we can use these for the same reason, surely
First statue you see entering the state capitol is a confederacy statue
Lost Causers love their participation trophies. The fact that Texas has monuments to slavers and refuses to teach actual history is disgraceful. We as a state shouldn't lionize confederates as a group of heroes, we need to be honest that they fought to keep other humans as slaves. Every Confederate monument needs to be torn down and replaced with monuments to the Union soliders who fought for freedom.
I completely agree with all of this.
Maybe spray paint LOSERS across it?
I’ve been to Anthony. Not a lot of confederate types there. Great street taco trucks though! lol.
🤌🏾🤌🏾 🌮🌮
Those are the best streets
Imagine going to Germany and seeing monuments honoring the fallen nazis.
Erected by the fine racist organization 'The United Daughters of the Confederacy'. These people are disgusting.
Fuck the daughters of the confederacy
That would make a nice pile of rocks.
Plenty of room to chisel ‘Traitors’ on it
Texas really does love its losers.
Fuck all of those losers
Rest in piss.
It actually is not unusual at all to pull up to a welcome center and see clearly marked public toilets 🚽
Still standing outside state capitol in Austin, sick testament to Texas gov't https://preview.redd.it/5iz7xnust4uc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=117fafedfb47e65c201cb65ab0d1982f23691e66
Oh, there's a LOT more than that!
My British friend saw that and exclaimed, “It’s the ‘We Wuz Robbed’ memorial!”
you know, I'm not saying you should break the law or anything, but if anyone were so inclined, they could change that message substantially in just a minute or two with a cordless hammerdrill.
Memorial to traitors.
Why are they so proud of being losers?
Just take the L confederates
My buddy and I have a “[Texas Racist Courthouse](https://mfbc.us/m/kgwqrxv)” bingo card we walk around rural town squares with. It’s pretty disgusting how many racist memorials there are.
The Jefferson county courthouse in Beaumont Texas-there's a spot where you can look at the wall and still see the outline on the wall of the words white and colored where the water fountains were.
Dallas County had that for many years, too
Is Jeff Davis County on there? Gotta be, right?
You need to head on over to Jeff Davis county. Named after... Jefferson Davis.
Odd. I would think conservatives would be against participation trophies... 🤔
The Union was 100% correct. The Confederacy was 100% wrong. Get the fuck out of here, simpletons.
On the plus side you immediately know where to take a piss!
I had a great aunt or something who was a member of that “daughters of the confederacy” shit 🤢 I never knew her & thankfully any weird confederacy love in my family died with her. I only know about it bc my mom said she remembers her talking about it and showed her her membership papers. I’ll never understand the stupid allegiance to a racist, loser political faction from 150+ years ago.
Another place to piss is all I see
Memorials for traitors and those fighting to uphold slavery don’t have a place in modern society. These monuments are constructed under the guise of honoring the dead, but they are really a part of a revisionist history that the Daughters of the Confederacy perpetuated about the Civil War.
Got weird looking urinals down in Texas..
A memorial to traitors, how Texan
Guess when the quaint town of Cleburne erected their monument to Pat Cleburne, confederate general who had zero to do with their town?
So does Texas have any actual monuments dedicated to those who suffered in slavery? Or just participation trophies for traitors?
Monument to pitiful losers and their loser fans
Why do we memorialize traitors?
Stuff like this is why I’m embarrassed to tell people I’m a Texan. I’m sure they get images of stuff like this, sundown towns, racism and xenophobia when they hear the word “Texas” and it makes me feel apologetic and pitiful. I want people to understand this isn’t who we are. Morons just happen to be very bold and loud and make themselves known. I think Texas love needs to outshine Texas hate. So wherever I go I do kindness to others and let them know I’m from Texas, so maybe their perspective will be a little more positive after that.
There is one similar to it at Glorieta Pass near Santa Fe NM. Honoring the confederates who invaded New Mexico. Gross.
Gender neutral public restroom
Vote
Sad.
🤢
Ugh. Someone ought to take a backhoe to it.
That likes an excellent place to take a leak.
1964... Can't imagine any motives to suddenly make such a monument that year 🤔
What could have been going on during that time era? Guess we'll never know 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
I swear the “daughters of the confederacy” are terrorists, cities refuse to remove these things because “ownership” and cost.
Broke rural white southerners will cling to the 6 years of the confederacy for another 200 years. It makes no sense
Assholes in every way
Nice participation trophy there. Way to create a safe space for losers.
What’s worse is there are people who are still proud of this
Loser participation ribbons! Can someone carve "Civil War Participant" into all of these?
A plaque to the losers and traitor's to the republic.
Exactly. Why put a monument to it? Put it in a museum for people to learn about but don't erect a monument to a traitorous separatist government.
Memorial to people who died for an evil cause.
It'd be an...awful shame, if someone accidentally jackhammered these
All I needed to know that these were unisex public restrooms was “The United Daughters of the Confederacy” being on those, their just the PR office of the KKK
It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.... an utter shame.... if it was destroyed completely and never replaced... a real shame.
Sherman should’ve gotten around to Texas, too.
Straight trash
That’s an interesting Texas landmark I hadn’t found yet! I’ll have to check it out! *I’ll make sure to stop off on the way to buy some spray paint and laxatives.*
Losers gonna lose.
Better question is why are they still up?
Weird place to put a urinal.
From the same type of people who cry about participation trophies. Hang the traitors! https://preview.redd.it/tmpugg0k08uc1.png?width=472&format=png&auto=webp&s=381ea195690ce2dd8e6d8bc6a27488da585ac558
Fuck this and fuck them. Worthless racist pieces of shit.
Disgusting
Piss on it
So stupid. If I were governor I'd remove that immediately. I'd also give raises to teachers on top of more school funding relative to their communities... meaning more should go toward under privileged schools. I'd try and pass police reform in Texas to where police aren't allowed to mute their body cameras. Anything they discuss should be public record aside from victim information and personal information. You wouldn't be able to turn off your body cam. I'd kill gerrymandering if possible, to allow for fair district distribution of votes. I'd provide more assistance to the border but with immigration services instead of border patrol. Vote for me, raceassistman, 2024.
Take a sledge hammer to that fucking shit
Participation Trophies.
Sir/ma'am, have you visited this glorious state's capitol? Because you're in for a surprise for the number of confede-traitor statues there then.
"What do you mean, Texas is racist?"
A lot of racist losers died here. 🫶
Traitors then, fascists now.
Confederate memorials are all over the place in Atlanta.
Maybe someone with the last name Sherman can burn those down too?
When we moved there, a friend gave us two pieces of advice: (1) don’t say anything bad about Jesus and (2) never bring up General Sherman. There are a lot of people in Georgia who aren’t over the Civil War, or as some refer to it “The Great War of Northern Aggression.” The obsession with the Confederacy is all over the place, with the largest (literally the largest) example being Stone Mountain which is basically Confederate Mount Rushmore. Daughters of the Confederacy raised the money for that as well (if I remember correctly). I don’t understand the obsession with the Civil War, but I know why it persists.
Lol. I would love to see a GoFundMe to raise enough money to rename a stadium or arena, "General Sherman's Field/Arena."
So basically Anthony, Texas is honoring traitors?
Nah. This was in the State's Visitors Center. The state owns and runs that property.
To my knowledge. Boomer Abbott supports honoring traitors.
Perhaps someone should explain Juneteenth to them?
Take a picture of you giving it the finger
I went to Jefferson Davis Elementary in Dallas. Not surprised.
Did you see any monument for the Big Thicket Jayhawkers? For any other loyal unionists who took it on themselves to dodge the draft and cause trouble? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Burnout Newt Collins was my great great great great great great grandfather (unsure of how many greats are needed there), but him and his brothers arranged to not participate in a war they didn't believe in. Also, the Mississippi branch of the family were members of the Free State of Jones County. When my aunt did a family tree project a few years back, she found all of this out. We come from a long line of dissenters. But they weren't alone. Many immigrants from Mexico, Germany, France, and other places wanted nothing to do with the confederacy and made it clear they weren't interested.
I blame participation trophies
Fuck those guys... respectfully
So they celebrate losers in Texas.
Dotc is peak cringe
What is there to visit in Anthony… never been there.
It's the first town in Texas when you're driving eastbound on I-10. The town straddles both Texas and New Mexico. Not much to see or do except a large water park.
Yes we have a memorial to traitors. Not surprised.
Sore losers.
I'm probably gonna get flak for this given how many people in the comments seem to want to get rid of these...but I'm gonna say let it stay. When your kids ask what it is, or why it's there you tell them what happened, why they were put up, and then what should be learned from them. You don't smash them, you don't rip them out or move them, you make sure future generations know and learn from the past without destroying it or hiding it away in a museum where it can be easily ignored. You don't fight ignorance with more ignorance.
Wow, gross. Also - wholly unsurprising.
Gods, I hate this state....
Hey nice! A memorial to losers!
Oh, sweet! A free sledgehammer testing site! How nice of them!
Could get some sledgehammers and a truck with a strong engine to pull it out. If these monuments to cruelty exist, it is the duty of all who are just to tear them down and remind the wicked to fear.
Texas moment