Man’s Country; Let White Men rule.”
I find it hard to see where that differs from the slogans chanted by those in the torchlight parade in Charlottesville, VA ― “You will not replace us; Jew will not replace us!”
It is the same old bitter wine in a more modern bottle. The one major exception comes in that the monument dispute has attracted not only those KKK members who wish the South had won the war, but the dispute brings other white supremacists, Nazis, and militias crawling out of the dark.
The argument that taking down the monuments to Rebel heroes means that we must take down all monuments to those who owned slaves is specious. The current president harangued reporters with “Do you like George Washington? Do you like Thomas Jefferson? They were slave holders.” Such questions represent a tremendous distortion of history. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson built this nation; Lee and the likes of Stonewall Jackson were basically traitors who tried to destroy this nation. Only someone who is supremely ignorant of our history would try to make such an argument.
That American heritage that the president and so many in this nation (62% in recent poll) want to maintain in the form of monuments of Rebel “heroes” is not really something of which, as a nation, we should be proud.