Editor, Gazette-Journal:

In some of the urban areas of our southern states, there exists an atavistic form of democracy that borders upon mob rule. This atavistic democracy has set itself upon not only the destruction of Confederate icons, but seeks to rewrite the history of this nation and people to reflect an elitist view of what history should reflect.

We will all likely readily admit that history is often fraught with war, destruction, death and surely injustice. However, as a people, might we respect the historical record of humanity’s imperfect efforts to survive and prevail in the achievement of a just society bound by law?

The elitist view that the bloody conflict referred to as the Civil War is not politically, socially or even academically worthy of recognition prompts this effort to deconstruct history at the expense of cultural autonomy within what is, in reality, a multi-cultural America. The issues involving the dispensation of social justice to a select group wi...