In the South, facts matter

Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2016 7:04 pm | Updated: 7:08 pm, Thu Feb 11, 2016.
By Phillip Tutor

... Kevin Mount of Verbena told an Alabama Senate committee this week ... “Confederate history should not be a white/black issue” ...

Um, Kevin, there’s a problem ...

He was one of several people who spoke this week before that Senate committee hearing arguments about Sen. Gerald Allen’s bill that would nullify cities’ power to remove historical monuments. Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, claims his bill isn’t specific to Confederate monuments, but we must ask: Are we to believe this bill is also designed to protect the Bear Bryant monument at Legion Field from Auburn-leaning activists? ...

... Ten of our first 12 presidents owned slaves at some point in their lives. Women didn’t gain the right to vote until 1920. We shed gallons of Native Americans’ blood in the name of Manifest Destiny and territorial expansion. Our government infected black Alabamians with syphilis in more than 40 years of indefensible medical experiments. But it happened. All of it. It can’t be rewritten. People who want to destroy history are akin to Holocaust deniers, who claim the Nazis didn’t murder 6 million Jews. That’s terrible company to keep ...

http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/phillip-tutor-in-the-south-facts-matter/article_ac774e2e-d124-11e5-9e32-8b6a0ee82241.html