Proof the Confederate Statues Have Nothing to Do with Free Speech

The Globe and Beyond:  Symbols in the South: A turning point for Confederate monuments


It took forty years before there was much interest in building statues to commemorate the Civil War and, what do you know, that construction was centered around the foundation of the NAACP.  There was a lesser surge through the end of the war and then another one with the Civil Rights movement.

Free speech never had a goddamn thing to do the statues or other Civil War commemoration except insofar as using them as vehicles to suppress the speech of black people.  Free speech only becomes significant to them when black people are doing it since that has to be stopped.

They haven't been trying to commemorate the Civil War so much as they want to start another one.


Note:  formation of the Klan in 1865 only lasted about ten years since they were so brutal in their lynchings and other depravity the Feds sent the Army in to take them out.  Unfortunately, they didn't get all of them.

The KKK has risen in various forms ever since but none differ particularly from any of the others except for the seamstresses who make their lovely gowns.