Breitbart has published a two-sided debate regarding the dismantling of Confederate monuments across the South, and columnist Jarrett Stepman is arguing that the monuments should be protected, not destroyed.
The issue is a sensitive one for many in the south. While current supporters for the Confederacy have largely clung to the idea because of family lineage or southern pride, many have tried to hijack symbols of the Confederacy for purposes of racism and violence.
Those people have largely won, as Confederate symbols across America have fallen in a stunningly quick fashion.
But now that time has passed from the shooting in Charleston, many are looking back at what may have been an altogether too-quick knee-jerk reaction by the country and the south, and wondering if the erasure of the Confederacy from our history was wise.
Stepman argues that America doesn’t need to fundamentally change and transform our history, but rather transform out future. Read his thoughts on the next page:
Jerry Chandler, the Democrats are doing it again. They love old tricks.
During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877 federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freed men, the African Americans who had formerly been slaves and former free blacks. In the 1870s Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures having used insurgent paramilitary groups such as the KKK, White League and Red Shirts to disrupt Republican organizing and to run Republican officeholders out of town and intimidate blacks to suppress their voting. Extensive voter fraud was also used. Gubernatorial elections were close and had been disputed in Louisiana for years with increasing violence against blacks during campaigns from 1868 onward. In 1877 a national Democratic Party compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election resulted in the government’s withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state. These Southern white Democratic redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws officially segregating black people from the white population.
Blacks were still elected to local offices through the 1880s but the establishment Democrats were passing laws to make voter registration and electoral rules more restrictive with the result that political participation by most blacks and many poor whites began to decrease. Learn some$#%&!@*for once.
Wow! The Democrats are doing it again. They love old tricks.
During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877 federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freed men, the African Americans who had formerly been slaves and former free blacks. In the 1870s Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures having used insurgent paramilitary groups such as the KKK, White League and Red Shirts to disrupt Republican organizing and to run Republican officeholders out of town and intimidate blacks to suppress their voting. Extensive voter fraud was also used. Gubernatorial elections were close and had been disputed in Louisiana for years with increasing violence against blacks during campaigns from 1868 onward. In 1877 a national Democratic Party compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election resulted in the government’s withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state. These Southern white Democratic redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws officially segregating black people from the white population.
Blacks were still elected to local offices through the 1880s but the establishment Democrats were passing laws to make voter registration and electoral rules more restrictive with the result that political participation by most blacks and many poor whites began to decrease. Learn some$#%&!@*for once.
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Jerry get a grip
Wrong, you can’t eradicate history
So true
No that is vandalism of a historic artifact!
Not yet, but it will be.
Everybody grab a spray can and vandalis anything you don’t like it’s 2015 all over again.
I guess we’re the new USSR now