Opinion | Is Manatee County Commission about to bring back the Confederate insurrection monument?

Monument was removed in 2017 after protests, but commissioners appear ready to re-open the debate on how to honor treasonous rebels.

Before Jan. 6, 2021, the biggest failed insurrection in United States history occurred when secessionist traitors from rebellious southern states started, fought and inevitably lost the Civil War between 1861 and 1865.

Some Manatee County commissioners apparently are ready for the South — or at least a monument to its race-based treason — to rise again on the grounds of the county courthouse in downtown Bradenton.

Officials last month drew up a proposal to have the county government return to the courthouse lawn a monument to veterans of the Southern insurrection, five years after it was taken down in the middle of the night. But the proposal was dropped, at least for now, before commissioners could discuss it.