The above is a link to an article published in the Southern Partisan in 1994. It is a crazed racist speech made by Ludwell H. Johnson at the Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) in November 1993 upon being named a Museum Scholar of the MOC.
It was published in Southern Partisan, 3rd Quarter 1994, pages 21-26.
It is now published online by the Abbeville Institute accessible in the above link.
For copyright reasons I could not quote it at length in this article about the MOC, link below.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/441/441_museum_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html
As I explain in the Black Commentator article Ludwell Johnson's neo-Confederate views were no secret.
Unfortunately the MOC as part of the American Civil War Museum will be part of the decision how to contextualize the Confederate monuments on Richmond's Monument Ave. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced that there will be a commission because the monuments have a "false narrative."
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/mayor-stoney-richmond-s-confederate-monuments-can-stay-but-whole/article_80e564f7-69f3-5897-a579-5799a9293b68.html
I see Stoney is employing all the buzz words, like diversity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/richmond-mayor-keep-confederate-statues-but-add-context/2017/06/22/cc30bb72-577b-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.8ed32cf5dcad
The above post article states:
"He said he's personally insulted by the monuments and wishes they had never been built."
So insulted he doesn't want them removed evidently.
The Virginia Flagger's protests against Stoney are artfully being used to make Stoney look like he is some champion against neo-Confederates which he obviously isn't.
I think we see the tactics that will be used to retain Confederate monuments.
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