Our writer is disturbed by rival memorials honouring the slave-owning Confederacy and the black victims of lynching
FEW COUNTRIES erect monuments to their failed secessionist movements, particularly those premised on the right to enslave people. But, then, America is an exceptional country. Many American cities and states are debating the propriety of monuments to the Confederacy—the band of southern states that fought a civil war over the right to maintain slaves. In few places is the controversy so searing as in Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, known as the national lynching memorial, is a powerful testament to the racial brutality endured by blacks well after the civil war. Lynching was tolerated and sometimes abetted by local officials, and watched by crowds of thousands for sheer entertainment.
So to move on to the First White House of the Confederacy, just a 20-minute walk away, is bewildering. It stands just off the capitol grounds, a few blocks from the church at which King preached. Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy, used this as his White House for four months.. There is scarcely a mention of slavery to be found among its displays.
The memorial had been adorned with four Confederate flags until the massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. Thereafter several states, including Alabama, took down the flags from official sites because of their association with white supremacism.
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