[trek]

Putting up a Confederate statue could be a cause of controversy in an age when Confederate symbols are being challenged across the South by those who find them an offensive reminder of slavery.

Hmmmmm....

That's funny. Perhaps I also should start a controversy because I am finding the deification of Barack Obama as the second coming of Lincoln to be an offensive reminder of Reconstruction.

[Sherman Logan]

I am finding the deification of Barack Obama as the second coming of Lincoln to be an offensive reminder of Reconstruction.

You can't really blame Reconstruction on Abe. Had he not been murdered it would have certainly been much different and probably a great deal more conciliatory towards the South. This was recognized at the time by most knowledgeable southerners.

[Rabble]

"Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late...It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision..."Maj. Gen Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA

Clearly a man with great vision. His prophecy correct in every detail.