Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe stated in an interview with The Hundreds TV that Civil War statues vandalized in protests should be in museums, in order to immortalize this moment that the United States is going through.
The vocalist reveals his opinion, saying that the statues should be preserved, but not in the commemorative positions they were in, where the public paid for their upkeep. “But I think they should be taken away, and they should be stored. And maybe they could be in a museum exhibit or something like that, so that people can understand this moment. And when I say this moment, I'm talking about now; there's graffiti on all of these things.”
“I think it’s important to recognize when and why these monuments were erected, because there’s a false narrative that, at the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy put up all these monuments,” Blythe states. “Most of these monuments were erected during the Jim Crow era , when segregationist laws were in effect. And they were placed there to consolidate the position of whites in our society, particularly in the South.”
Check out the full interview below:
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