Posted on 08/14/2017 3:08:29 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Statues and monuments are a pretty lousy way to tell history regardless of who erects them.
I lived in DC for years, and my favorite monument was always the Jefferson Memorial. It’s the one monument I would actually visit on my own without out of town guests.
And I had a complicated relationship with it as my views on Jefferson evolved over my life.
(If anything, Jefferson is currently on an upswing with me because I tend to always react negatively to cultural sea changes, and Hamilton has really knocked Jefferson’s stock down in the general culture).
It is good to know that there is still some common sense in our military.
Interesting. I was a big fan of Jefferson's back in high school, but got interested in Hamilton later because he was underrated and under-appreciated while Jefferson seemed to get away with murder. Given all that's been going on, I may have to rethink that now.
The Founders are just fascinating people. George Washington really did and does seem like what we can be when we listen to our better angels.
Hamilton and Jefferson are basically our ever present political reality.
John Adams is where our best hopes meet our actual selves.
This is a really bad extended metaphor.
It did seem like Jefferson got away with murder for hundreds of years because he was such a beautiful writer and had such an amazing intellect. He was a romantic hero. And if owned slaves, oh well, so did Washington and a lot of the rest of them.
Hamilton was brilliant but was unlikable and a street fighter and straight up got murdered by a political rival.
So, some corrections were in order. But, now I feel like the pendulum is swinging too far in the other direction. We need some romanticism in our political life again.
Exactly. I’ve said the very same thing here many times.
No . Southern tradition and culture — wonderful history and honor. YANKEE!!
The “Rev’’ Sharpton doesn’t even know there is a West Point.
I'm of the opinion it happened because we allowed the commies to take over our schools and universities... We have allowed them to brain wash our kids starting at a very young age.. In some states the kids go to the government school as young as four years old. The welfare Mommy's don't want to take care of the kids they get PAID for having... That's why they always ALWAYS vote for the dimocraps.....
MHO......
A ‘tradition’ of importing labor by force because you were too cheap to pay your fellow white man and treating human beings like animals, PECKERWOOD!!!
yankee jack ass
Moonshine addled slave-empire-fantasizing bumpkin.
I almost wish you lot would actually try a second Civil War so that we could finish what Sherman couldn’t. It took damn near 100 years just to put down your little bedsheet-wearing goon squad that liked to burn churches and schools.
But your survival instincts are too strong for that, so here we sit: one side just smart enough to not start anything that will end in them getting outright flattened, the other side not wanting to cause the inevitable civilian and infrastructural collateral damage if it can possibly be avoided.
yankee dog.
Did you two decide to join FR at the same time just to piss all over the place or do we have a sock puppet in our midst?
Kim Jon, is that you ?
The only slavery present day blacks know is welfare slavery.
Democrats of old used their own money to buy slaves. Present day Democrats use taxpayer money to buy their slaves.
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