1. Nobody is calling Skynyrd racists. Who told you that? Ronnie made that clear
"Van Zant
later said. 'We're Southern rebels but, more than that, we know the difference between right and wrong." The boos were aimed at George Wallace.
2. Knowing and understanding the past is a far cry from celebrating it by erecting statues and monuments well after the Civil War as a shot across the bow of black southerners and desegregationists.
3. There is a reason there are no Nazi monuments in Germany, and still, they are well aware of their past.