Read second post of this thread. Why is there slavery? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
The second post in this thread is on topic Majority of republicans support keeping up statues of the racist traitors who fought a war against The US to keep black people as slaves.I'm certainly not surprised.
This thread isn't about the history of slavery.Its about the majority of Republicans in Congress today supporting keeping up monuments of the people who fought to keep black people in The US as slaves.
The white conservative voters who live there would disagree.The photos below are not from 2 centuries ago