They have ramped up the clampdown in recent months, raiding hundreds of offices and homes of independent journalists, activists and all those deemed unloyal.

“He was unpatriotic; he was unloyal; he had no respect for authority.”

Ms. Brooks, a student at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, said she had been registered to attend the University of Cincinnati when her father was killed, but decided “it felt kind of unloyal for me to go there.”

But although continuing to promote such sorrow may be helpful to the Confederates’ descendants, revering those unloyal citizens keeps us from building one nation where every child, man and woman has equal rights .

The interesting thing is that Christ chose a man who was scandalously unloyal.