[Governor Dinwiddie]

These descendants of jungle tribesmen are so laughable. They are still struggling with the concept of “Constitution”.

[Bonemaker]

“These descendants of jungle tribesmen are so laughable. They are still struggling with the concept of “Constitution”

And the concept of liberty.

[Verginius Rufus]

Although the main purpose behind all of this is the Left's grasp for power by dividing people against each other (divide et impera), there is also a lot of virtue-signaling going on. Of course non-whites are automatically virtuous (unless Asians) and whites are automatically presumed to be racists unless they make a big show of supporting BLM and similar groups. The media plays its part by making a big deal out of insignificant nobodies like David Duke and this group in Charlottesville nobody had ever heard of before.

The underlying premise is that Southern whites in the 1860s were uniquely bad. In fact racism as we now call it (the word wasn't invented until later) was just as prevalent in the North. Lincoln had to make the war a war to reunite the Union--if he had made it a war to end slavery at the outset the North would have failed. Tocqueville in Democracy in America (1830s) thought racial prejudice was more intense in regions where slavery had been abolished than in regions where it still existed.