As they say: birds of a feather….
A “Southern heritage” group is planning a celebration in Montgomery, Ala., that will feature a parade down the city’s historic Dexter Avenue. That’s the same street where thousands of civil rights marchers rallied in support of voting rights at the culmination of the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. And it’s the same street where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped ignite the movement a decade earlier from his pulpit inside the small Baptist church, which still sits in the shadow of the state Capitol.
But the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the group sponsoring the Feb. 19 event, isn’t interested in commemorating King or the civil rights march. Instead, it will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Confederacy. These “sons” plan to reenact the swearing-in of Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederate States of America and fire off a few cannons to ensure that “the Heritage of the Confederacy…is remembered and portrayed in the right way.”
The right way. Whatever can they mean?
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