{"id":357,"date":"2017-09-04T21:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=357"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:51:24","slug":"sarcastic-sentry-volume-2-9-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Sarcastic Sentry Volume 2.9, Issue 1."},"content":{"rendered":"

Monumental Farce<\/p>\n

–Baltimore: removes 4 statues honoring Confederate leaders in the dead of night.\u00a0 Workers wear masks to protect their identity.<\/p>\n

–Durham: Protestors tore down a statue dedicated n 1924 “in memory of the boys who wore gray.”\u00a0 It wasn’t even of a specific leader.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

–Chicago:\u00a0 Pastor James Duke (presumably no relation to David) wants George Washington Park and Jackson Park renamed.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 He wants to rename it after former Mayor Harold Washington (black?).\u00c2\u00a0 The park has been around since 1870.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 This park has been in existence since 1893.<\/p>\n

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).\u00c2\u00a0 Duke says he is not trying to erase history.\u00a0 But black communities should have a voice in who they honor in their communities. \u00c2\u00a0One presumes they’ll all be black. Sounds very pro-segregationist to me.<\/p>\n

–Georgia: A Gubernatorial candidate (Stacey Abrams) called for the removal of the faces of Confederate leaders from the carved face of Stone Mountain.\u00a0 These carvings, stopped and started several times since 1914 are 90 feet tall.\u00a0 Good luck.\u00a0 They are protected by state laws.<\/p>\n

So where does this end?\u00a0 When do we start burning books?\u00a0 Remember who did this before? \u00c2\u00a0Who will administer the coming thought police?\u00a0 Will we bring back gold stars to sew on the clothing of people identified with “wrong”\u009d ideology?<\/p>\n

I know, let’s tear down every monument to Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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<\/a>)<\/p>\n

How about this one?\u00a0 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.\u00a0 He (Lee) was a slave owner and fought against the country.\u00a0 We can’t bury our heroes on such tainted ground, can we?\u00a0 How soon can we expect exhumations to begin? (http:\/\/www.arlingtoncemetery.mil\/Explore\/History\/History-of-Arlington-National-Cemetery)<\/p>\n

You can’t atone for the ugly portions of our history by eradicating all physical monuments to it.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Bad things happen through every era of man’s history.\u00a0 Cain slew Able in mankind’s first murder.\u00a0 Do we delete the book of Genesis because murder is wrong?<\/p>\n

Far better it would be to have a more robust civics program in schools.\u00a0 TEACH what happened and why it was immoral rather than deny it happened.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 That is a whole other issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monumental Farce –Baltimore: removes 4 statues honoring Confederate leaders in the dead of night.\u00a0 Workers wear masks to protect their identity. –Durham: Protestors tore down a statue dedicated n 1924 “in memory of the boys who wore gray.”\u00a0 It wasn’t even of a specific leader.\u00a0 Takiya Fatima Thompson was charged with 2 felonies, and 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}