“The Civil War ended 152 years ago – why can’t confederacy defenders just get over it?” Seriously, think about it: isn’t 152 years long enough to honor the leaders of what was in fact an armed rebellion against the United States of America? Does it really take more than the six or seven generations that have passed through your families since 1865 to get those resentments out of your blood?”
The people who died in honorable service to their states, they had pledged their lives to their neighbors.
Even the survivors are dead.
The people who put up the statues are dead.
The people that fought them are dead.
People who fought them put up statues as well to heal the nation are dead.
The people alive today weren’t there, why can’t we leave the dead alone? Why can’t we leave history alone?
I thought you folks might find this blog piece ... “interesting.”
There’s a reason you don’t see Jews demanding the Holocaust museum be destroyed. People ascribe meaning to historical momentos and sites, and art. Let them give meaning to them all, whether positive or negative. That’s why they were created.
This is all a manufactured Alinskyite war.
As the based black-woman said on the infamous CBS interview, "I wasn't born then and you wasn't either."
Sounds like she's a whole lot smarter than you are Dave. Either abandon your principle (that we must preserve our history) or abandon your conclusion that it's ok to deracinate the artifacts from that history. But you can't have both.
Far more people visit the Roman Forum than read Cicero.
You can't keep the good parts of history and excise the bad parts of history.
Yeah - that’s the ticket. If the targets kneel to the violent thugs, it will make everything better....
A week has gone by and the Nazis didn’t get me!
Mr. Blackmon is a fool.
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“don’t give me that crap about the Civil War not being about preservation of slavery.”
OK, you provided evidence that it was for the south - now provide evidence that it was for the north.
Crickets.
They couldn’t care less about slaves per se. They simply did not want a split-up country, and that’s why it’s commonly called the “Union” on the yankee side.
Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Race
Race who?
RaceyatotheTVcamera!
A little bit OT, but there should, instead, be a World War between Those Who Are For Political Correctness And For Leftist Politics against Those Who Are Against Political Correctness And Against Leftist Politics!
The war was fought, the outcome was in the slaves’ favor, and for some stupid reason the left wants to fight the war again and erase the historical record of our nation's success.
Our nation's monuments are markers of context, not worship. Slavery and our strength in defeating it can't exist if its record is expunged. Grants victory doesn't exist when Lee's presence is eliminated. Citizens who know their history are not offended by the presence of the reminders of who and what we fought for -- or against.
For the past decade we are simply witnessing ignorant, selfish, misguided punks, paid by wealthy agitators to foment a violent uprising in order to cover up the existence of a shadow government intent on destroying the voice of reason, unity, and law & order using false racism as a vehicle to achieve a global assassination of one of the most truly progressive nations to ever exist.
Every day, with every scheming step, the left forces a very passive, quiet, patient, exceedingly-tolerant, family oriented, self-motivated, hard working, private, freedom-loving, lawful, intelligent populous to divert their attention from their peaceful lives and acknowledge the escalating threat the leftist shenanigans pose to our nation's existence. Only fools would ignore our history in thinking that's a good idea.
News flash for David Blackmon, we are in the bleeding Kansas phase of CW11 right now.
This is a text book example of cucking. Shame on the author for being such a coward. What would his ancestors think?
That’s not all it is. It’s just one more way to diss America. Today it’s the confederate statues, tomorrow it’ll be Washington, Jefferson, and any other person we might think worthy.
These leftist want to totally destroy the family, the churches, and the ethic behind our government and denigrate the founding fathers as evil.
There will never be a stopping point, and any old excuse will do. We are supposed to have freedom and the 10th amendment in this country, so I really don’t care what other states, counties, and towns do in their jurisdiction.
I know this, the guy who said that we should take down the statues for National Security, because there could be violence is a panderer to violent people, and is blaming inantimate objects for what violent people will do.
The best thing is to send a message that violence won’t be tolerated, and nothing will be done except what voters of the region want to do. Put it to a vote, and the loser can just shut up about it.
I’m sick and tired of a few radicals dictating what the rest of us have to do. Sick and tired of stupid stuff like boys allowed to use girls bathrooms. Sorry, but these people live in an alternate universe, and one that isn’t at all logical.
You know I watched a meeting of the Texas Curriculum group a few years ago. The liberals got very hostile, because their idea to limit USA history to something like 1950 going forward. They said anything earlier was irrelevant.
So that’s what I think, they just want to purge the history and purpose of the USA system from everything so that any of our ideals are irrelevant, and they are going to keep on tearing down and changing stuff, till all we have left is their Marxist Dream Utopia Bizarro world, where down is up, green is red, and good is evil.
Good lord
More neocon suck up to dark people blather
Sounds exactly like every freeper on my wall of shame on my homepage
I detest these weak
Has this guy ever been to a restoration village, such as Jamestown or historic museum houses, where people dress up in the clothing of the times?
Should we stop making history "real" for the generations to come?
-PJ