I'm actually kind of "meh" about statue removal... but if I felt strongly about it and went to protest the removal, I would be taken aback by KKK members, white power groups, the Nazi salutes, the chants of "blood and soil". You may be motivated by a strong sense collective history, a perfectly reasonable position to take, but you have some awful bedfellows. For me, it would not be worth taking a stand on this issue if it lent any respectability to these other groups showing up and taking the same stand.

You may feel I am being fed facts, but I feel like I've done my research reading nasty first-person accounts from terrible people. You may discredit this research because it supports the "media" view, but on the other hand, I may be right, and the media may be right. Meanwhile, the only support you have offered for your view that these were not white supremacists, not KKK, not fans of the Nazis is that you haven't tried to find out.