Oh dear. Look what some miscreants have done:
Police say someone spray-painted the message "Black Lives Matter" on a statue memorializing the Confederacy in Charleston several days after a shooting at a historic black church. ... The pedestal's permanent inscription is "To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston.
And apparently because this was too shocking, it was
immediately covered up with plastic tarps. Gosh, drat this lawlessness. Meanwhile some rapscallions in SC have begun
burning the Confederate rag ... er ...
flag.
God or Ben Tillman (I get those confused sometimes) knows that White Power in South Carolina was not secured by red spray paint. In fact, I feel quote coming on from Pitchfork Ben right now:
In a 1909 speech at a Red Shirt reunion in Anderson, Tillman reiterated this point, noting that he believed in "terrorizing the Negroes at the first opportunity by letting them provoke trouble and then having the whites demonstrate their superiority by killing as many of them as was justifiable."
He added, "That we have good government now is due entirely to the fact that Red Shirt men of 1876 did all and dared all that was necessary to rescue South Carolina from the rule of the alien, the traitor, and the semi-barbarous negroes."