I watched it from start to finish. I certainly don't agree with him when he says that it was right to remove the flag in South Carolina, that it would be acceptable to remove the Davis monument in Richmond or his idea that the Lee statue on Monument Ave. would be better if it could be altered to depict Lee in civilian dress. With that said, even though I don't agree with every single word of his address, I really do love listening to Bud Robertson talk.
The biggest problem I have is Robertson's insistence on compromise. He spends so much time expressing his opinion that this effort to remove monuments is lunacy, and I agree wholeheartedly with that thought, and so it is that I can't imagine why he thinks that we should compromise with such lunacy.
What needs to be done is what should have been done at the start: dismiss these calls for monument removal as lunacy from the outset and ignore them. Those bent on removing monuments do not see compromise as a solution; they see it as a stepping stone from which they can launch a new attack upon the whatever object of their collective ire.
None of these monuments require any change... not destruction, removal, alteration or additional signage. Just let them stand.
As for the response made by the failed high-school "history" teacher turned blogger/author, it's like a fly buzzing in response to the roar of a lion at best.
Bringing the