Posted on 08/17/2017 11:01:06 AM PDT by AmusedBystander
Dear African-American protester,
In the history of mankind, there have been many more white slaves than there have been black slaves. Your history is not unique, it is merely the latest chapter in man’s inhumanity to man.
In America, there are thousands and thousands of white crosses all across the country. Those crosses represent the thousands and thousands of young, white boys who gave their lives so that your great-great grandfather could gain his freedom.
Across Europe and the Pacific, there are more thousands and thousands of white crosses that represent the thousands and thousands of young, white boys who gave their lives so that your grandfathers didn’t end up in one of Hitler’s ovens.
You have been given an incredible opportunity today that your ancestors could only have dreamed of. But you are here today to protest “whiteness” and Confederate symbols. To many white northerners the Confederate symbols and memorials represented traitors to our country, but to the citizens of the South they represent pride, honor and history of the sacrifice of their ancestors. Not unlike how the cross which was the method of death of Jesus Christ became the symbol of Christianity and resurrection. A sign of love and forgiveness rather than a symbol of tortuous death. But time and bloodshed heal many divisions and the USA evolved to become a beacon of hope to the world.
It is another of life’s ironies that you wish to destroy a symbol of slavery while voting as a Democrat. The very party that represented slavery, whose members founded the KKK, whose politicians passed Jim Crow laws and defended segregation for generations. A party that despises Republicans who have been with the black cause from the beginning and has fought for and passed civil rights legislation for over 150 years. The Democrat party is much more symbolic of slavery that any Confederate memorial could ever be.
Martin Luther King, Jr was a Christian preacher who wanted to be the white man’s brother. He did not want to destroy “whiteness”. He wanted to make it color blind and have blacks share in the bounty and potential of the American Dream. Not once during his career did he call for the destruction of Confederate symbols. He merely wanted to destroy the barriers that Democrats had erected.
African-Americans should drop the African and just consider themselves Americans. Your protests should be centered on reshaping the thug culture which permeates the black community. It is black on black crime that is filling the prisons. It is black drug dealers poisoning the black children. It is the thug culture which has turned black women into hoes and bitches and baby mamas instead of wives, daughters and sisters.
Colin Kaepernick is a great example of how not to be a role model. I would think that when he was leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl that the majority of his fans who were watching him play and buying his jersey were young, white boys. What an opportunity he had to be a role model to show that he was a leader of people instead of lashing out at the very people who made him a multi-millionaire and popular sports figure. He had the chance to be one of the giants whose shoulders would be pillars for those yet to come, but instead he chose to spit on those who supported him.
You have the chance to forget the past and work on the future. To make improvements to the content of your character instead of focusing on the color of one’s skin. Those Confederate symbols cause you no harm, but the wail of blighted and dying children needs to be answered.
Excellent commentary. Thanks for posting.
Hang on. We ought to rethink all this. My ancestors were Palatine Germans, brought here as indentured servants and were forced to produce Naval Stores and then turned out to be slaughtered by French paid Indian mercenaries. I want reparations!
I like it, please continue
“In America, there are thousands and thousands of white crosses all across the country. Those crosses represent the thousands and thousands of young, white boys who gave their lives so that your great-great grandfather could gain his freedom.”
Great paragraph, as it shows that the Civil War was about Slavery.
Nice
>> To many white northerners the Confederate symbols and memorials represented traitors to our country
or represented economic independence from the North — which was the catalyst for the war — and certainly not the immorality of slavery.
“Colin Kaepernick is a great example of how not to be a role model. I would think that when he was leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl that the majority of his fans who were watching him play and buying his jersey were young, white boys. What an opportunity he had to be a role model to show that he was a leader of people instead of lashing out at the very people who made him a multi-millionaire and popular sports figure. He had the chance to be one of the giants whose shoulders would be pillars for those yet to come, but instead he chose to spit on those who supported him.”
Do you believe that Colin Kaepernick is not in the NFL because he sat during the national anthem or because he no longer has the skill set to perform as a QB in the NFL?
EXCELLANT. GLAD YOU POSTED THIS.
Excellent comment, well thought out - I applaud you.
Unfortunately it is unlikely that the protesters will take the time to read such logic; the truth does not fit their agenda. And if the blacks in this nation were inclined to read it, it is an unfortunate fact that most of them cannot read past an elementary level so comprehension is unlikely.
It is an inconvenient truth (to crib a phrase) that ‘the truth’ is difficult to deliver to those who most need to hear it.
Thanks. I wrote it more as therapy for me and sometimes like-minded folks need to be reminded that we do stand for higher principles.
It is so easy to get demoralized by the constant barrage of the leftist media.
LOL! I hear ya. I’ve pretty much reduce it to an F U these days. No amount of rationalization will work on them. Nicely done though.
I’m posting this on my Facebook, and will attribute it to you - thank you.
‘To many white northerners the Confederate symbols and memorials represented traitors to our country’
I have never considered the Confederacy to be traitors...I’ve always maintained they had a perfect right to secede if that was their idiotic desire...
‘or represented economic independence from the North — which was the catalyst for the war’
although I do consider this comment to be quite ill informed...
Thank-you!
‘Do you believe that Colin Kaepernick is not in the NFL because he sat during the national anthem or because he no longer has the skill set to perform as a QB in the NFL?’
I believe that if Kapernick himself thought he had the talent to play, he would never have sat through the anthem...
Vanity is not news. You need to post in chat. Regardless how important you consider your opinion, it’s not news.
AMEN!! Well said.
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