[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Laker14

Rainbows and unicorns would be an improvement over statues glorifying those who fought to preserve the institution of human slavery.
Doesn't seem to me that should be such a difficult concept to grasp.
From Robert E. Lee's great-great-great nephew, according to Smithsonian Magazine: "I see them as idolatries," Rev. Robert Lee IV told ABC News last year. "They have been created into idols of white supremacy and racism."

Those of you who claim that statues honoring the Confederacy were erected to "preserve history" are missing the boat. They were erected to glorify the concept of the Confederacy, which includes human slavery, and white supremacy.
By all means, the fact that these attitudes were considered not only normal, but just, and the divine right of the White Race should be included in every curriculum in the United States.
It should be forever taught, that Alexander H Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederacy, proudly spoke the following, as justification for the secession of the Confederate States,
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth"

That , folks, is the essence of the Confederacy. While honorable men fought honorably for its survival, it should never be whitewashed, or forgotten, exactly what they were fighting for.