White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

[Rahul]

One of my Great Grandfathers, four generations back, was a Corporal in the Union Army manning artillery under General William Tecumseh Sherman. He was part of Sherman's march into the South burning and laying waste to everything they came across. The focus of Sherman's march was not only to destroy the Southern army's supply lines, but also to compromise the will of Southerners to continue fighting. I don't think Lee liked the idea of succession but fought for the South in defense of his home state, Virginia.

If Lee's statue and other Confederate monuments would have remained in place where they were do you think the White Supremacists would have come to riot in Charlottesville?

At this point I don't believe that appeasement is the answer to respond to all the hatred coming from white supremacy groups.  This is something we have to confront as a nation.  We can't ignore it any longer.

The problem is not that some locals are taking down Confederate monuments in their own town.  It's that some people are willing to kill to keep them up.