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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

WVEC, my local ABC-affiliated television station, has an excellent article about the raising of Confederate monuments across the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The writer does an excellent job of placing those memorials to treason in context; if you don’t understand what the statues and the movement to remove them (is that a removement?) is about, I urge you to give it a read

It includes this prophetic quotation from John Mitchell, who edited a black newspaper in Richmond, Va., during that time period:

This glorification of States Rights Doctrine, the right of secession, and honoring of men who represented that cause, fosters in this Republic, the spirit of rebellion and will ultimately result in handing down to generations unborn a legacy of treason and blood.

Methinks he nailed it.

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