Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America

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 Is there some point at which you'll stop using racial discord as a wedge for your idiotic political opinions?

It is one thing to call a policy position racist, it is another thing to demonstrate that it is so. I think you do a lot of the former and very little of the later. If people want to erect and dismantle monuments via a legal democratic process then so be it. But mobs rioting and pulling down statues is un-American. If like-minded people want to assemble to carry signs and torches and chant about anything at all, including racial supremacy or armed resistance, they have that right. It is called free speech and freedom of assembly. To physically assault people exercising their civil and human rights is un-American. I would go so far as to say that given the nature of their extremely vile ideology they had it coming, but that still doesn't make it any less a violation of their rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech.

I agree with almost all of this.

But let's not kid ourselves. The Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments erected throughout the South were not put up as the result of what any right-thinking person would consider legitimate democratic processes -- unless, of course, you are prepared to defend an outdated, blatantly racist understanding of what constitutes "legal democratic processes". Southern blacks sure as hell weren't consulted, and any exercise of their free speech in opposition would have resulted in a gruesome harvest of strange fruit. It was a tool in a campaign of government-backed terror, plain and simple: Niggers, this is our place and don't you ever forget it!