Query:why are monuments to confederate soldiers symbols of white supremacy and monuments

Seriously, the talking points in the last year have been if you support monuments to Confederate soldiers, you are a white supremist., a bigot or a Klan member. yet, the hundreds of monuments up north are never mentioned. Don't get me wrong, I think monuments to the valor of soldiers in Michigan, New York , Rhode Island were and are apprpriate but just as appropriate are the monuments to Southern soldiers. It's just one is callled white supremacy and for the other, not a word is said.

That's one of the benefits of winning

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A large faction of Americans are retards when it comes to history.

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I couldn't care less about monuments, keep them all...it's history.

But you can't blame people from taking history straight from the horses mouth. The South 160 years ago only has itself to blame for the negative view upon their heads.

History was written; then it tried to be re-written by a few Southern apologists who gained favor; and then history was re-written back to the original story.

Vice-President of the Confederacy tells us from 1860:

"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right.

The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.

The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.”

Our new (Confederacy) government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

On the eve of secession, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Richard Thompson Archer declared it was time for the South to stand “united… in defense of the God given right to own the African."

William Thompson, editor of the Savannah, Georgia newspaper Daily Morning News. Thompson designed one of the Confederate battle flags that was accepted and approved by the Confederate government about halfway through the war.

Here’s how Mr. Thompson summarized the Southern cause:

As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race…” Thompson also went on to say his new flag design would “be hailed by the civilized world as THE WHITE MAN’S FLAG.”

(Capital letters from his own quote in the newspaper)

The Liberty Place monument had nothing to do with the Civil War, or it's generals and heroes....It commemorated the murder of thirteen police officers and six bystanders in the 1875 attack on municipal police headquarters by a white supremacist group, "The White League"....

BLUE LIVES MATTER. BLUE LIVES MATTER. BLUE LIVES MATTER.

BACK THE BLUE! BACK THE BLUE! BACK THE BLUE!

Black folks really dont care, its self loathing white folks.

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Would love to give my honest opinion but it would get me banned like when I gave my opinion of Moochelle Obama.

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Cool. So you are racist as frick, but smart enough not to get banned again.

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Query:why are monuments to confederate soldiers symbols of white supremacy and monuments.

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Because they were fighting for white supremacy.

The poor whites were treated like shite by the planters. No way would they yield social equality with the blacks. Blacks had to be below them.

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This part tho......I'm trying hard to disagree.

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Someone hasn't been to West Virginia.

I have to disagree . The first 7 southern states succeeded or left theUnion not because of slavery but because of the politics of slavery. Lincoln and the Republican Party didn't run on a" let's end slavery in the south" platform in 1860. They ran on an anti-extension of slavery in the new territories. Lincoln , who privately abhorred slavery believed he couldn't do anything about slavery as it existed in 1860... but he could do something about the expansion. Under no circumstances was slavery to be allowed in the new states coming into the union, i.e., Nebraska and Kansas. This position was untenable to the south as they saw their political power eroded as new "free" states " being admitted(two senators and congressman). Lincoln sent troops down south initially, not to free slaves, but to put down the rebellion. It was later in the war ( emancipation proclamation) that the cause changed, to set free the slaves. If you are truly interested to see what lengths the the north went to to avoid war and succession, google the Corwin amendment to the constitution.