Charlottesville should make you ashamed you supported Confederate monuments
By Jarvis DeBerry
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
... There should be no more debating about whether these monuments that blight the South (and even some parts of the country that don't consider themselves South) are actually "white supremacist monuments." Their defenders have loudly objected to that characterization. But it should be plain now to them and to everybody else that white supremacists monuments is what they were meant to be, white supremacist monuments is what they are and their celebration of white supremacy is why they must be removed.
All those who spoke up to defend Confederate monuments in New Orleans should be ashamed of themselves now. Charlottesville illustrates for them the side that they picked. The side of racism. The side of white nationalism. The side of violence. The side of murder.
And, to be sure, it was clear all the time that those statues represented that side - no matter how many so-called respectable tried to tell us otherwise ...
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