Years ago I asked a former commissioner in our city what the word "progressive" meant. I was not familiar with the term. Now I have learned. It is to destroy...tear down our democracy, our history. The progressive impulse to purge public spaces of Confederate monuments isn’t about inclusion and tolerance, it’s about politics and power.
Monuments have everything to do with preserving our past--we learn from our past. It's not about siding with the confederacy or the fact they used slaves or they lost a war.
It took a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, to free all of them. Then northern carpetbaggers blitzed through the south and brutalized everyone in their path. The aftermath of the war was in some ways worse than the war itself. It was a horrible time in our history but one we should never forget. The South won't forget and they won't forget what progressives are doing to these monuments and their heritage. The current drive to erase all of our Confederate history is not about tolerance; it's not about unity, something liberals always expound but never show. It's all about power.
Read about General Smith
Wasserman-Schultz should be putting her time to better use such as explaining to the American people why she continued to pay her Pakistani-born Imran Awan IT guy who was under investigation by the FBI for theft and cyber security-tied abuses.
Love this. It's so true and sad. Didn't Hiltler burn books? Thanks for standing up, Lynn
ReplyDeleteLETS SEE ALL MLK AND OBAMA STREETS CHANGED BACK TO STREETS.THAT OFFENDS ME
ReplyDeleteWasserman Schultz attempts to distract from all her outrageous and illegal behavior with her latest antic. SHE really needs to be impeached. She is a stain on Congress.
ReplyDeleteWho was buying all that slave picked cotton? THE NORTH ! General Grant owned slaves. OTHER BLACKS owned slaves!!! History is messy,and sometimes brutal. But it is our history. And we have moved on and learned from our past injustices. Well most of us have anyway.How can we learn from history if it has been erased? Just like the Holocaust deniers we have now,what happens in 80 years when we start having slavery deniers? Slavery? Another person owning another person??? What???? That COULDN'T have happened!
ReplyDeleteThe destruction of public property has to stop. The criminals tearing down and destroying monuments are the modern day equivalents of the book burning Third Reich.
While it is true that some Northerners owned and wanted to keep slaves and some Southerners were against slavery, it is also true that some slave owners were black. It is also true that white people didn't go into Africa chasing down and capturing young blacks, tying them up and bringing them to America. They were sold to the white slave traders as property by the chiefs or elders of the tribes they belonged to in Africa.
ReplyDeleteIt is also true that slavery exists today on this here Earth.
But you don't see statues of Romel or Hitlet or Mengela in Germany to honor their bravery in combat. Their likenesses are more suited for the museums of that dark period.
Our situation is a little more complicated here as much of the country was initially developed by owners of slaves. Trump has a point. Where do you stop? Take down all tributes to Jefferson? The Father of our Constitution.
I find MLK and JFK offensive. Erase their memories. Lets go tear down any monument to them that we can find. That's the new norm,right??
ReplyDeleteNo one has a monopoly on pain. There have been slaves of every race and culture. Rewriting history does not change anything. Stepping up to one's responsibility and putting it behind us would help to heal.
ReplyDeleteIf you're new in town those streets named after the kind Dr King assist in not going through a NO GO zone, everyone should have the capacity to be safe.
ReplyDelete"It is fortunate that each generation is unaware of its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous." Charles Dudley Warner
ReplyDeleteWe had good race relations until Obama.
ReplyDelete