Blood Spills Over a Statue
David Niose
... the vast majority of protesters trying to save the statue of Robert E. Lee are not history buffs, but white supremacists. Converging on the statue carrying shields and waving Confederate flags, the marchers chanted phrases like, “You will not replace us. Jews will not replace us,” and other neo-Nazi slogans ...
... White supremacists march to defend the statue of Lee in Charlottesville because it represents official public validation of the racism that they espouse. Its removal would be a drastic blow to their psyches and the unseemly views that they hold dear, for it would finally concede to the world that the fundamental idea that Lee defended — racial superiority — has at last been rejected even in the state that he called home ...
If nothing else, the events in Charlottesville highlight the fact that there is increased awareness in contemporary America that memorials glorifying the Confederacy are indefensible ...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201708/blood-spills-over-statue-lee
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