Palesa Morudu’s column on Tuesday was an endeavour to ride roughshod over any conservative values that readers may entertain (Rightist claims of heritage just nonsense, August 15). Let me emphasise at the outset that racism and bigotry are diabolical and demonstrate a depravity of the persons nurturing those sentiments. The right-wing elements (including neo-Nazis and white supremacists) have a right to protest and express their views. They have no right to chant racist and sectarian slogans. However, confederate symbols such as the statue of general Robert E Lee are part of US history, whether one likes it or not, and cannot be expunged from antiquity. The author expediently chooses a time in history to suit her proposition that "the flags, the statues … are all about the refusal to accept the defeat of a system that enslaved millions of Africans". Throughout history, there have been vicissitudes that have affected Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is not for us to rewrite history, ...
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