Black People Politics : White (Nationalist) Riot

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The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed

ADAM SERWER

... Lee was a devout Christian, and historians regard him as an accomplished tactician. But despite his ability to win individual battles, his decision to fight a conventional war against the more densely populated and industrialized North is considered by many historians to have been a fatal strategic error ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...l_hps_59974c174c2b213f32f2bdbc&CNDID=49183601


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What Confederate Monument Builders Were Thinking
Southern leaders made it clear that statues were part of their early-20th-century effort "to establish white supremacy"
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Justin Fox

... These monuments, then, were to a large extent political statements, akin to the statements that John Knox made at the beginning of the 1901 convention. They were a big "in your face" from newly confident Southern whites to their black neighbors and to the Northern states that won the Civil War ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/arti...paign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo

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