What makes this especially absurd and hypocritical, is that the people who most complain about it are the same people who support the democratic party which created the confederacy.
I lay out this argument to them and they come back and say to me “That’s the old Democratic party. It is no longer like that. Now it’s the Republicans who are racist” Oh REALLY? So then I point out to them the case of Robert Byrd, KKK recruiter and Civil rights opponent who in 2010 democrats praised as a God, 32 buildings named after him, including a giant 20 foot statue of him in the Capital building. Nothing has changed with Democrats.
I find it really annoying when people make the claim that “the parties have switched”. There is no evidence for this at all. The Democrats have been hurting blacks for 150 years. They’ve never stopped. Republicans have been trying to help blacks for 150 years. They’ve never stopped.
This is like Communists attacking Nazis as “rightwingers”. No. Nazis are Socialists. Nazis are Leftists. They are Collectivists. They don’t care about individual rights and freedom. They care about group identity and government control. They are Leftists.
The Left always tries to pretend that they are something that they are not.
The Democrats in the 19th century were protecting the status quo and were the conservatives of their time. Do not project back today’s political realities on to the 19th century. Especially pre war 19th century.