Removal of Confederate Monuments

[Wild Bill]

There is one thing to remember about the Civil War that cost at least a combined 750 dead according to the latest figures. Namely, there was no peace treaty. There was a cease fire. This lack of protocol has cost the North dearly. It has given the white South an opportunity to act without admitting to surrender. Abetted by a North that sympathized more with the South on race, the North has failed to get the South to admit to surrender.

Indeed, Reconstruction was ended with the North withdrawing its troops and going home, allowing the South to set up a segregated society. For the next 100 years the North tried in vain to "Force" the South to knuckle under, despite the fact that the North failed to pass five or six voting rights acts to be supervised by Federal agents or the Army and no civil rights acts (in the South they are called Force Acts) from 1873 to a meagre effort in 1957.

Then came Lyndon Johnson as president and aided by the murder of President JFK and the legislative ability of Republican Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Johnson shamed the North into passing a Public Accommodations (Civil Rights) Act in 1964 and a Voting Rights Act in 1965. This is frequently called the Second Reconstruction, and at first it has suffered from the same foot-dragging as the First, as Northerners ducked behind the Southern segs like William Fulbright for the opposition to the war in Viet Nam and behind Sam Ervin for the Watergate episode. The Southerners knew Congressional rules better than the Northerners and how to prolong debate and delay votes.

But now the Yankees want to show they won the Civil War, 150 years late, of course. So aided by Southern Scalawags like Mayor Landrieu they strike at the Confederate flag and statues. They are as much a heritage of the white South than an aberration as ahistorical moderns want us to believe. It has taken 50 years since the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts for the Black Revolution to gain enough steam to scare white politicians into supporting this nonsense and erasing our Southern history and culture. And you still have not got your peace treaty.

Deo vindice.