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A Town Tried to 'Heal' Racial Divides. It Energized Confederate Supporters Instead
Horror of Horrors! Someone wore a MAGA hat! Anyone notice that the city council formed a ‘Human Relations Commission’? Naming it after the evil, pseudo-government entity from the Turner Diaries? That was a sure way to win points with the public. Reconciliation my Arse! Not to mention the illusory popular support for monument removal, What else can you expect from the uber-leftist WaPo? - DD
Confederate supporters arrived first, establishing a Saturday morning base near the town waterfront with “Save our history” signs and Civil War information sheets. Some sported red MAGA hats and shirts that proclaimed “America First,” or, in one case, “If you don’t like Trump then you probably won’t like me and I’m OK with that.”
The opposition showed up about two hours later carrying stark white signs with black letters: “Remove this statue.”
For the next two hours, as they’ve done nearly every Saturday for the past three years, the groups mingled with confused tourists in a seemingly unending fight over a Confederate monument at the heart of this historic town, which is nearly 60 percent Black.
What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the opposite. A chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, long extinct locally, sprang to life. The forgotten Confederate Memorial Day was resurrected and commemorated again last month with a wreath-laying and roll call of the rebel dead.
And the town council, which had formed a Human Relations Commission in 2020 to consider steps for racial reconciliation, last fall came up with a novel way to handle the statue of a generic Confederate soldier:
Take it down…
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