You can’t possibly understand as you are not A. an American B. a Southerner and C. a Black American living in the Deep South. For this North Carolina Gov to speak out and risk potential votes, that is something to be applauded. and for an accurate written piece about this situation. read

https://medium.com/@rhettmc/thoughts-on-confederate-statues-from-a-southern-white-male-b81a2693113d

Rhett McLaughlin accurately points out that Confederate monuments were originally erected to re-write history. Taking them down erases racists attempts to retell history.

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