The Real Story Behind All Those Confederate Statues
By Kevin Drum
August 15, 2017 at 08:51PM
via Kevin Drum – Mother Jones http://ift.tt/2w8Iimz
«Yes, these monuments were put up to honor Confederate leaders. But the timing of the monument building makes it pretty clear what the real motivation was: to physically symbolize white terror against blacks. They were mostly built during times when Southern whites were engaged in vicious campaigns of subjugation against blacks, and during those campaigns the message sent by a statue of Robert E. Lee in front of a courthouse was loud and clear.»