Monumental Farce

–Baltimore: removes 4 statues honoring Confederate leaders in the dead of night.  Workers wear masks to protect their identity.

–Durham: Protestors tore down a statue dedicated n 1924 “in memory of the boys who wore gray.”  It wasn’t even of a specific leader.  Takiya Fatima Thompson was charged with 2 felonies, and 2 misdemeanors. She said the statue was pulled down to show solidarity with anti-racist activists in the wake of the violence at Charlottesville.

–Chicago:  Pastor James Duke (presumably no relation to David) wants George Washington Park and Jackson Park renamed.  In GW Park, he wants a bronze statue of our Nation’s Father removed because of slavery. He, (Washington) is no hero to the black community, says Duke.  He wants to rename it after former Mayor Harold Washington (black?).  The park has been around since 1870.

He also wants Jackson Park renamed after Michael Jackson, a drug abuser and pedophile who killed himself, or after Jesse Jackson, an extortionist and man guilty of inventing his heroism at the killing of MLK.  This park has been in existence since 1893.

See, these are black people and I guess that’s the only color people in this community can see without also seeing red (when coached thusly by racist leaders).  Duke says he is not trying to erase history.  But black communities should have a voice in who they honor in their communities.  One presumes they’ll all be black. Sounds very pro-segregationist to me.

–Georgia: A Gubernatorial candidate (Stacey Abrams) called for the removal of the faces of Confederate leaders from the carved face of Stone Mountain.  These carvings, stopped and started several times since 1914 are 90 feet tall.  Good luck.  They are protected by state laws.

So where does this end?  When do we start burning books?  Remember who did this before?  Who will administer the coming thought police?  Will we bring back gold stars to sew on the clothing of people identified with “wrong” ideology?

I know, let’s tear down every monument to Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.  See, he threatened to shoot black soldiers in the back during the final charge up San Juan Hill in that imperialistic war against the Spanish in Cuba.  He didn’t threaten to kill white soldiers if they retreated. Doesn’t that make him a racist?(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wike/rough_riders)

How about this one?  Arlington Cemetery–where we’ve laid our honored dead for decades–it once belonged to Robert E. Lee, the same Confederate General we are removing busts of, and even that pansy Bubba Watson painted over the flag of on his car, dubbed the General Lee from Dukes of Hazard.  He (Lee) was a slave owner and fought against the country.  We can’t bury our heroes on such tainted ground, can we?  How soon can we expect exhumations to begin? (http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/History/History-of-Arlington-National-Cemetery)

You can’t atone for the ugly portions of our history by eradicating all physical monuments to it.  You can’t exact social justice for the inhumanity of the slavery years (and they included good ole’ Irish people as slaves too) by destroying landmarks.  Bad things happen through every era of man’s history.  Cain slew Able in mankind’s first murder.  Do we delete the book of Genesis because murder is wrong?

Far better it would be to have a more robust civics program in schools.  TEACH what happened and why it was immoral rather than deny it happened.  Of course we’d need teachers who actually know history and would be allowed to teach it as it happened and not according to the talking points.  That is a whole other issue.