Shelby’s Monument to White Supremacy
<p>Shelby’s Confederate monument is a symbol of white supremacy. It is today just as it was when it was unveiled 113 years ago. It is resiliently offensive to Black people and any person who believes Black people deserve equality. Cunning Southerners — captained by a group of high-society white women who venerated the Ku Klux Klan — have used an avalanche of propaganda in the educational system for decades to cover its true meaning.</p>
<p>For just as long, Black people have been saying this monument and others like it are offensive and degrading. They harken back to an Old South where a new one waits for birth. In 1931 as he toured the South, W.E.B. DuBois <a href="http://cwmemory.com/2017/05/29/w-e-b-dubois-on-confederate-monuments/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">wrote</a> “the most terrible thing about the War, I am convinced, is its monuments.”</p>
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