Posted on 06/22/2015 5:29:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Yesterday, in the midst of all the church services and speeches and emotional turmoil welling up in Charleston, South Carolina, protesters defaced a statue in White Point Gardens. The iconic piece, dedicated to the Confederate soldiers from the state, was spray painted with various messages including the now seemingly ubiquitous “Black Lives Matter.” (Or that seems to be the intent, anyway. It actually says, “Black Lives Mater.”
A statue near The Battery memorializing Confederate defenders of the city was found vandalized Sunday with the message “Black lives matter.”
Another message, “This is the problem #racist,” also was spray-painted on “To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston — Fort Sumter.”
The monument was placed at the site by The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The damage was reported to police dispatchers just after 12:30 p.m. The statue was covered up by residents who wrapped a large tarp around it about 1:30 p.m.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
At this point, even knowing the howls of outrage which result from the simple act of asking a question these days, there is one thing I would like to find out from the vandals who did this: what exactly is it that you are protesting this week?
Trust me, I’ve seen all of the #BlackLivesMatter protests taking place across the country. I follow the news. In the majority of them the subject of discussion centers on deadly incidents between (usually white) police officers and (almost always black) suspects. And at least in purely philosophical terms, I get it. That’s not to say that I agree with you on the details, as we’ve wound up discussing here far too often in the past. I don’t agree that that “police in general” are racists and trying to eradicate the black community. But I understand that you do, and given the nature of the discussions which take place, I can at least wrap my head around why you are protesting and flying the #BlackLivesMatter banners.
But what’s going on in Charleston which sees you not only trotting out the same slogan, but defacing this monument? The issue at hand is Dylann Roof. I think, by this point, we’ve pretty much all agreed that he’s not only a hateful, murderous beast, but a seriously hard core racist as well. But as soon as the news broke last week the police were out there combing the neighborhood. They chased down every lead and one of those tips led to Roof’s arrest. He is now cooling his heels in jail and people all the way up to the governor are calling for him to receive the death penalty for these heinous crimes. We got the guy and did so in nearly record time.
So I ask you again… what exactly are you protesting?
Is there some indication that the police (who risked their lives to bring him back in shackles) or your elected government representatives aren’t taking this seriously? Have any of them given some indication that the lives of those nine black worshipers didn’t matter? At this point I’m getting the impression that you are claiming that Roof is a symptom of something deeper. Perhaps you are claiming that he’s only one member of some vast army of hate filled, white race warriors who are planning executions. But if it comes as any consolation to you, the best argument to soothe your concerns comes from Roof himself in his alleged manifesto. (Emphasis added)
“I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country,” he wrote. “We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”
Much has been made of Roof’s hateful diatribes, and rightly so. But the section above seems to be conveniently overlooked in all of this analysis. Why did Roof go into that church and start shooting unarmed, innocent black people at a moment when they were at their most peaceful and defenseless? At least in part because he couldn’t find anyone else to join him in his race war. If there were active cells of racism terrorists (or whatever phrase we’re supposed to be using in this case… I can’t keep track of them all) waiting to leap into action all over the South, I doubt Roof would have had any trouble being accepted into their ranks.
This vandalism of a more than 80 year old statue honoring not slavery, but the lost lives of family members in a long ago war, makes no sense. (And I won’t drag out this column even further by bringing up the subject of how the Civil War was about much more than slavery yet again.) Every action which has taken place since the shooting has demonstrated that those black lives mattered very much to the police and the government. And now you’ve managed to take a moment when the entire population of the city – across all racial lines – was coming together and draw another line of division between you.
In this country you are called racist for saying White Lives Matter, or All Lives Matter. The country has a collective psychosis.
That is presumptious, and possibly raccisss. Giving the benefit of doubt to the "artist", they could very well be referring to British mothers (or, alternatively, a concern for astrolabe parts).
Black Lies Mater!
No skinheads, no KKK...shut my mouth! The American media and the BBC are going to have to suppress those remarks.
I like my ‘maters with cucumbers and hot pepper vinegar
And when will the world acknowledge “Christian Lives Matter”?
Yet all of the blacks killed in Chicago and Detroit over the past 3 weeks (far more than 9) elicit not a damn peep.
Apparently the property of other citizens doesn't "mater". (Nor does proper English).
They’re not politically useful.
You just know some liberal whiteboy defaced that monument. Too obvious!
One good outcome: It outed the Republicans who enabled the media by supporting the agenda of dissent.
This is why the situation in this nation has gone so far. Now law enforcement isn’t even allowed to call out “race baiters and criminals” without a major upheaval, protests and calls for resignations. What do they want? I suppose it’s just free rein to loot, pillage and kill at will without consequence.
The letter called out criminals and race baiters and they immediately took offense. I suppose we can view the crowd and see who supports race baiters and criminals.
Louisville police union leader attacks ‘sensationalists, liars and race-baiters’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3302460/posts
“what exactly are you protesting?”
This vandalism isn’t about protesting. It probably wasn’t even done by locals. There’s a very good chance it was done to STIR UP more animosity and tension, either by Dylann groupies or by the Left wing agitators who parachuted in and were told by the locals to leave.
Remember, there are folks on BOTH extremes here who want to start a race war.
THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Kipling really is one of humanity’s great treasures, isn’t he?
(Nor does proper English).
you miss the point...these people are actually quite erudite, for they are obviously refined polyglots, spreading the good word,to their immediate families, starting with Mama...
‘Mater’, in Latin, is vocative singular, or direct address...they are actually saying ‘O Mother’, and telling her that Black, whoever he/she is, is still alive...
at least that’s how I see it, this early in the morning...
The #BlackLivesMatter, Black Panthers, ACORN, NOI and others might want to study that poem.
With long arrears to make good,
the same-sex bunch probably has been studying this poem for quite some time...
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