NYT Opinion Piece ends Confederate Monument Debate for all time.

This New York Times opinion piece should be the end of the discussion on Confederate Flags.  There is simply no answer to this woman’s eloquent shaming of the Confederate “heroes”.  I really recommend reading it, but it really grabs you from the opening lines:

 I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Old South.

For me the most powerful line is this:

I am a black, Southern woman, and of my immediate white male ancestors, all of them were rapists. My very existence is a relic of slavery and Jim Crow...I have no white people in my genealogy in living memory. No. Voluntary. Whiteness. I am more than half white, and none of it was consensual. White Southern men — my ancestors — took what they wanted from women they did not love, over whom they had extraordinary power, and then failed to claim their children.

I have never read anything that more starkly explains why celebrating these people, who fought to enslave others, is a farce.