Moral preening called out; Confederate Rest stone lives for another day
“Are you doing this,” Peters said of Stu Levitan’s about-face in favor of removing the memorial stone at Confederate Rest, “to show you’re against slavery?”
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Confederacy
Confederate Rest stone is ‘too big’ for Stu Levitan
The latest excuse for removing the Confederate grave marker in Madison? It’s too big.
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155 years after their capture, imprisonment, and deaths — Mayor Soglin vows no rest for ‘traitors’
Unlike New Orleans, there is no general resplendent in uniform riding high on a pedestal astride a snorting and stamping horse. Confederates Rest is quiet, simple, and sorrowful.
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The Oh-So-Virtuous Paul Soglin Strikes a Pose
For the likes of Soglin, the Charlottesville story won’t be fully told until they declare, “Look. Over here. At me.”
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