Letter to the Editor

I am a Confederate-American.  That simply means that my ancestors lived in and fought for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.  It does not mean that I am a hater, bigot, racist, traitor, white supremacist, white separatist, secessionist, anti-Semite, alt-right supporter, xenophobe, Nazi, KKK member, or any of the other derogatory labels currently being hung on proud southerners who happen to value statues of Confederate soldiers.  In fact, I am none of those.Some of my ancestors were slaveholders but most of them were not.  The ones who actually saw combat in the Civil War were subsistence farmers who had nothing to do with slavery.  They marched off to protect their