Larry Wilmore on Confederate symbols. . .

[Stonepounder]

41. The Jews in Germany with images of Nazi past is extremely powerful analogy.

Sometimes, I swear, the white folks don't even realize what they are doing. When we retired we bought a place in 'Colonial Manor'. Sounds nice, doesn't it. It really is a nice place. Good neighbors, its been around long enough that the trees are all grown and provide shade in the Summer, there are only two exits and they both exit onto the same through street, and almost all of the streets in it are cul-de-sacs, so very little through traffic.

But, here's the part that kinda makes you blink. All of the streets in 'Colonial Manor' are named after Confederate generals, or Confederate battlefields. Go figure. I suspect most of the residents don't even realize the cognitive dissonance of it, and the advantages to living here manage to outweigh the conflation of the Revolution with the Civil, but it is something that I reflect on several times a week as I turn into 'Colonial Manor' onto Appomattox Dr. (Seriously, why would someone naming streets in memory of the Confederacy name a street 'Appomattox'?)