The Confederacy is rightfully burning, literally and figuratively, though never quite fast enough.
Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens stated, “Our new government is founded upon….the great moral truth that the negro is not the equal of the white man; that slavery…is his natural and moral condition.”
Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, went so far as to proclaim that “Slavery was established by the decree of Almighty God.”
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The defeated Confederacy's place is in history books, Civil War battlefield memorials and museums.
It is not in public statues that honor Rebel traitors and racists from an ugly part of our nation's past.