Fox News reported on proposed monument to black South Carolina Confederates. There actually were none.
Republican lawmakers are trying to erect a new Confederate monument in South Carolina to honor mythical black Confederate soldiers in the state
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Fox News Radio reported on a proposal by two Republican South Carolina lawmakers to erect a monument in honor of black Confederate soldiers, but according to a local newspaper, “records show the state never accepted nor recognized armed African-American soldiers during the Civil War,” a fact the Fox report did not mention.
During the segment, headlines anchor Kevin Battle reported that “Lawmakers in South Carolina want to erect a new monument at the State House to honor some state residents who were never recognized for their service to the Confederacy, but this monument is unlike the others and would honor African-American Confederate soldiers.” But The State, a South Carolina newspaper, reported that according to historians and other experts, there are no documented accounts of black soldiers fighting for the Confederacy in South Carolina. There are, however, records of the state refusing to accept black soldiers. Additionally, South Carolina enforced laws “which prohibited African-Americans from carrying guns in the state’s service throughout the war.”
Fox hosts and contributors have repeatedly defended Confederate monuments and attacked those seeking to have them removed, claiming that taking down the statues is "history being erased," an attempt to "erase every shred of patriotism," and comparable to book burning and the Taliban.
From the January 2 edition of Sirius XM’s Fox News Headlines 24/7: