Tag Archives: Confederate memorials

What happened in one small, Virginia town when the 1910 Confederate memorial was struck and all-but-destroyed by an out-of-control truck driver: You can imagine the political conflict, I’m sure, when it came to discussing how to rebuild. The truth is that the memorial (and others like it across the South) got erected in the first place by the then-PC-dominating majority. And the twist here is that, so far, slavery and emancipation are not on the agenda for mention.