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I am well read on a lot of the atrocities committed against blacks . I probably know more than many on this board. I also know how hopelessly complicated the Civil War was and the many nuances, contradictions, and inexplicable exceptions found in Southern culture. There is nothing , however, that justifies destroying reminders of and connections to past eras.

Im not necessarily for the destruction of Confederate monuments, I just want it known who they were, what they stood for and who erected the monuments.

It gets laid in the lap of "White Southerners" and "Republicans" and it was neither. It was White Democrats.

The UDC, which had chapters all over the country heavily promoted "the lost cause of the Confederacy", maybe you heard "The South Will Rise Again", they wrote childrens books about the KKK, the Cause and White Supremacy. As recently as 2018 their website proclaimed that Slavery was good for all involved.

I know you can appreciate this, but Democrats are really good at laying their crimes and sins at the feet of others. They had you believing for years that they cared about gay people. They don't, they care about power. End of story.

Up until the 1850s they derived the bulk of their power from the slave trade. They were willing to destroy the country and fight a war to preserve it.

When they lost they changed their focus to basic oppression and founded terrorist organizations to promote it, then formed groups like the UDC to promote the terrorist and propagandize the country.

They then realized, with the new deal that they could derive power from keeping blacks as a dependent voting block.

After opposing civil rights legislation for decades the Democrats started championing themselves as civil rights heros and became the grievance party.

They themselves had caused the vast majority of the greif but now they promised to fix it.

They have been making those promises and enjoying that vote for 60plus years, what have they done to help black people? Or anyone for that matter?

Democrats are for power, thats it.