As monuments to the Confederacy are removed from public squares, new ones are quietly being erected
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-confederate-memorials-20171020-story.html
Annette Pernell, a council member in this Texas town, was aghast when she heard about plans to construct a Confederate memorial that would be visible from the interstate and loom over Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
But there was nothing she or anybody else could do about it. The land was private.
And so the Confederate Memorial of the Wind slowly went up on a grassy half-acre. A total of 13 concrete columns - one for each Confederate state - rise from a circular concrete pedestal. Eventually it will be surrounded by as many as 40 poles topped with Civil War battle flags.
"It's as if we've gone backwards," said Pernell, who is 54 and black. "I didn't think, at this age, I would see what I'm seeing now. A Confederate memorial is a slap in the face of all Americans, not just African Americans." ...
No, Annette ... Confederate memorials are NOT a slap in the face of ANYONE ... they are simply a remembrance of our history. What IS a slap in the face is your racist demagoguery and your tyrannical belief that you can force such racist demagoguery down everyone else's throats without any regard, whatsoever, for The First Amendment. Suck it up, buttercup ... this memorial is on PRIVATE property ... and there is nothing you can do about it ... which is as it should be.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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