Que faire des monuments confédérés du Congrès?

On retrouve quatre fois plus de monumnets commémorant des personnages des états confédérés dans l'édifice du Capitole qu'on y retrouve de monuments commémorant des activistes noirs. Au moment où plusieurs villes américaines déboulonnent des statues, il est légitime de s'interroger sur le sort réservé aux monuments du Congrès.


"It took over a century for the states to fully populate the collection of statues, according to the Architect of the Capitol. Individuals memorialized include presidents, entertainers, soldiers and educators.

Twelve of the statues memorialize individuals who either fought for the Confederacy or were active in Confederate politics. But not a single black American is represented in the Statuary Hall Collection.

In recent decades federal lawmakers sought to address this disconnect. They couldn't add any statues to the official Statuary Hall Collection -- that power was given only to the states. So Congress commissioned its own works of art commemorating African Americans, to be placed alongside the statues in Statuary Hall.

The first was a bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., added in 1986. Congress didn't create any additional statues of African Americans until the Obama administration, when in 2009 another bust, this one of Sojourner Truth, was placed in Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor's Center."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/16/the-u-s-capitol-has-at-least-three-times-as-many-statues-of-confederate-figures-as-it-does-of-black-people/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_capitolstatues-1145am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e9e78511a5a8