Thoughts on Charlottesville

There are many good things about our Southern heritage. None of this wickedness is among them.

by Rod D. Martin
August 13, 2017

I have some friends who love Dr. Michael Hill, the founder of the League of the South, one of the organizers of yesterday's "rally". Hill is a former history professor, and sucked a lot of otherwise sensible people into his pro-Southern nostalgia, particularly as attacks have ramped up against various aspects of Southern heritage.

Few of those people are racists. Hill has long pretended he is not a racist.

So let me cite this quote, from a story which ran on Friday, right before the riot. Hill has become more honest in his old age, and it's time for the nostalgia crowd to wake up.

"The League of the South's longtime president, retired university professor Michael Hill of Killen, Alabama, posted a message in July that began, "Fight or die white man" and went on to say Southern nationalists seek 'nothing less than the complete reconquest and restoration of our patrimony -- the whole, entire South.'

"'And that means the South will once again be in name and in a…