"In a way, the memorialization of Wade Hampton might be even more insulting than the flying of the Confederate flag. The flag's defenders have convinced many people that they're not commemorating slavery, just Southern history as a whole. (I don't believe that argument has merit; I'm just saying others do.) But what else are Wade Hampton's statue and the Wade Hampton Building besides tributes to his anti-democratic seizure of power? What else could the celebration of a political figure know only for his connection to white supremacist violence possibly be, except an endorsement of white supremacist violence?"
Ben Mathis-Lilley in Slate discusses how South Carolina "honors white supremacists."
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