Confederate Statues Aren’t Heritage — They’re Treason

In this episode of The Chuck Kyle Show, I take apart the myth that Confederate statues and the Confederate battle flag represent “heritage.” They don’t. From the United Daughters of the Confederacy rewriting schoolbooks, to statues erected as warnings during Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era, to Army posts named after traitors, these symbols were designed to enforce hierarchy, hate, and fear.

We trace the story from the Lost Cause in the 1890s, through Silent Sam in 1913, to the Arlington Confederate monument erected in 1914, and all the way to Donald Trump’s 2025 effort to reinstall Confederate symbols and revert Army base names. Along the way, we connect the Confederate flag at Trump rallies — and even inside the Capitol on January 6th — to the long arc of propaganda disguised as heritage.

History is what we teach. Heritage is what we honor. And honoring treason is not heritage.

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