Donald Trump’s US government announced on Tuesday August 5, the return of a memorial paying tribute to slavers, in a cemetery near Washington. He had been removed after the movement “Black Lives Matter”.
An American memorial that pays tribute to slavers, withdrawn after the demonstrations of the anti -racist movement “Black Lives Matter”, will be reinstalled near Washington, announced the United States Minister Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, August 5.
Located in the military cemetery of Arlington, the Memorial Confederate paid tribute to combatants from the Confederate States of America, defenders of slavery who fell during the Civil War (1861-1865).
The “beautiful and historical sculpture” will return as it should be to the national cemetery of Arlington “, announced on X Pete Hegseth, notoriously hostile to policies to promote racial or sexual diversities.
“She should never have been removed by Woke sheep. Unlike the left, we don’t think we should erase American history, we pay tribute to her,” insisted the head of the Pentagon.
Part of the memorial removed in 2023
Since Donald Trump’s return to January’s return to the Presidency of the United States, the government has led a battle against the initiatives it says linked to WOKE ideology, a term used in a derogatory manner by the conservatives to denounce what they perceive as an excess of activism in favor, in particular of minorities.
The bronze parties of the memorial had been withdrawn in 2023, three years after the anti-racist demonstrations of the “Black Lives Matter” movement (the lives of blacks count, in French), triggered by the murder of the African-American George Floyd by a white policeman.
“A nostalgic and mythified vision” of the Confederates
This movement had notably started major debates on racism and the presence in the public space of symbols of the country’s slavery past.
Among them, according to the activists, appeared the Arlington Memorial. He presented a “nostalgic and mythified vision” of the Confederates and included “very sweetened representations of slavery”, according to the website of the cemetery.
The Trump government has made a 180 degree turn. In June, the American president had, for example, announced that a series of military bases were going to be renamed by their former names associated with Confederate Generals.