"Y'all young people don't know shit!"

African-American defenders of the Emancipation Memorial have gone into action.

"While Black Lives Matters activists tried to chant them down, reenactors dressed as freed slaves of Capitol Hill and Frederick Douglass gave an abridged version of the dedication speech. When the organizer told the crowd that the older generation had failed them and had nothing to teach them, a black man in a “New York City” shirt followed, raising his voice to tell the crowd his great-great-grandfather is that slave (depicted in the memorial), and “[these] young upstarts” better show some respect for the suffering of their people.

“Do you even know the history of that statue?” [African-American tour company owner Don] Folden demanded, holding court after a fiery speech.

No, they don't. And even after you educate them, they still don't care. There are some pristine moments of actual white privilege chronicled in the article, so make sure to read the whole thing.

Finally, Marcia Cole from the African-American Civil War Museum offers an essential perspective.

Not that education truly matters in this. You are dealing with emoting solipsists who think they have reached the pinnacle of enlightenment. Literally nothing else matters: facts, the experiences and struggles of others, the bloody examples of history, none of it.

They shriek, therefore they are.

Meanwhile, the unenlightened will be expected to atone forever--and there is no forgiveness.