Originally Posted by
darrowdisciple
Although graffiti is perhaps understandable as the writings of the otherwise unheard, it is totally inappropriate, particularly on private property. By the same token, monuments to the Confederacy, almost all of which were built decades after the surrender at Appomattox, and described by the American Historical Society as "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South," are little more than White Supremacist graffiti, a warning to African-Americans that "this is our turf, we're in charge, and there will be consequences (often to your necks) to those who step out of line -- the line being whatever we say it is."