Since the flames of Ferguson, there has been a concentrated effort by the Left to cause racial divide and strife. In subsequent protests, the target and cause of the problem was white Cops shooting black males, the cause for racial divide failed to gain traction. Along comes the Charleston Shooter and he succeeded where Charlie Manson, Reverend Al, Reverend Jackson, Black Lives Matter, and the Social Justice Warriors failed. The left and race agitators have been able to put a face to the target of the cause, the Confederate Flag and Confederate Memorials. The ideology of the Charleston shooter aligns with the KKK created by the Democrats to cause fear in black people, and the KKK co-opted the Confederate Flag to further its cause.
Vandals have targeted monuments dedicated to the leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy, painting the slogan “Black lives matter” on memorials in a half-dozen states where the landmarks stand tall in parks and outside government buildings.
The graffiti reflects the racial tension that permeates post-Ferguson America, more than a week after a white gunman shot and killed nine black congregants at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.
Michael Allen, a lecturer in American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, compared the vandalism to the toppling of statues in Russia at the end of the Soviet empire.
“If the monuments are strong statements of past values, defacing them is the easiest and loudest way to rebuke those statements,” Allen said.
Confederate symbols including the rebel battle flag have been the subject of resentment for years. The anger boiled over after last week’s massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The suspect, Dylann Roof, posed in photos with the Confederate flag.[…]
Darrell Maples, commander of the Missouri chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the “citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America.”
He said altering or removing monuments is “divisive and unnecessary.”