When will the nation finally view black Americans as fellow Americans? Black Americans are always missing from the equation when Confederate apologists try to explain away the monumental injustice done to fellow Americans. White supremacy is so ingrained that we have Coloradans in 2017 defending the racist Confederacy when we weren't even a part of it. That's saying something.

Confederate soldiers were primarily poor white Southerners who fought on behalf of rich white slave owners for an unjust cause of tyranny and racism. White supremacy and divide and conquer have always been the methods to get poor white Americans to buy into racism when they had no real vested interest in it. Why do you want to celebrate poor whites getting drafted and conned to fight for unjust white supremacy and anti-black bigotry and tyranny?

Stop celebrating anti-black racism, divide and conquer strategy, and tyranny. Fulfill the ideals of Reconstruction, at long last.