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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't Congress replacing the statue, it's South Carolina replacing the statue that represents their state in Congress.
I mean... progress? I guess? The new statue guy doesn't hate as many people...
By the numbers... he actually hated more people.
That’s kinda cheating though. That’s like saying insert celebrity has more followers than Jesus did. There’s just more people
That's true, proportionally it's 5% vs. 13%
Now I'm curious.
Are you saying that there are more LGBTQ+ people than there are non-white people?
I'm curious because I would have expected the opposite, but I don't actually have any numbers to back that up. What percent of people identify as LGBTQ+? And is it uniform across races?
There are more LGBTQ+ folks that Billy Graham was aware of (about 1 in 20 people identify as LGBTQ+ yielding about 12.5 million adults) than the ~2.5 million non white Americans in 1860 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010196/population-us-1860-race-and-gender/
Billy Graham wasn't around in 1860. The article said that he died in 2018 at age 99, so he was born in either 1918 or 1919 nearly 60 years after 1860.
According to the 1960 Census, taken during Graham's lifetime, it appears the numbers ~~dont~~ line up with your statement. In 1960, the total population was 179,323,175 and the total nonwhite population was 20,491,443. If we keep the 1 in 20 estimate (or 5%), then there was an estimated 8,966,159 LGBTQ+ people in 1960, ~~less than half of the amount of the non-white population.~~ about 4 times as many non-whites in 1860 during the other guy's lifetime.
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1960/pc-s1-supplementary-reports/pc-s1-10.pdf
Edit: just realized I was mistaken and have corrected my statement. Sorry about that!
If you restrict it to just Americans, then yeah, I get that. There are a ton of white people in America.
I was thinking worldwide though. You don't have to be American to be hated.
Percentages?
Paid for privately and authorized by the state. There are plenty of reasons to complain about US Congress but this isn’t one of them. Direct your complaints toward North Carolina politicians
I’d even count this as a bit of a step forward, maybe: at least Graham wasn’t a slave owner
Edit: read the Wikipedia entry. Apparently he made a stand against racism his entire career, voted democrat, and refused to join “Moral Majority”. You could do worse (unless you’re a women or lgbtq)
Next up: Tony Robbins statue outside the stock exchange.