What the neo-confederates and rebel flag-waving idiots can't see is how they dishonor their ancestors. If they were leading everyone at civil rights and justice for black people the message would be that slavery was a circumstantial, now-anachronistic thing.
So they could say that great-granddaddy wasn't malicious and a monster. But by clinging sickly to that past they argue that the racism was a matter of character and that their ancestors were racist scumbags. Maybe they weren't but their descendants certainly are.
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