The Ghost of Bobby Lee - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

This isn't about "honoring" the past--it's about an inability to cope with the present.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on how - yes - the Confederacy was about slavery and any whitewashing of the past ignores both that truth and that much of the "honoring" of the Confederacy these days has more to do with the racism and fear of "others" in those suggesting that honoring treason is patriotic.