Amid outcry over Confederate markers, new ones are going up
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}As Confederate statues across the nation get removed, covered up or vandalized, some brand new ones are being built as well.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans are dedicating a $5,000, 7-foot-tall monument on private land in Aiken, South Carolina on Saturday. A marker honoring unknown Confederate soldiers was recently unveiled in a private park in Alabama, and another memorial has been installed outside a courthouse in Georgia.
Supporters say these new monuments are meant only to honor the Civil War soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the South.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}But Benard Simelton of the NAACP calls them a "slap in the face" when Americans should be coming together.