Well reasoned and backed up with facts.
But the Lakota 38 were people of color, and a disproportionate number of them were Lakota, an oppressed indigenous people. In fact, all of them were. So Red Lives Matter, and Bearded Stovetop Hat Man Bad.
LOL. Touché.
I had started to write a 2022-focused paragraph at the end. But, the post was already too long. (Bad habit of mine.)
If the Lakota 38 had all been pardoned, the activists would still be defacing statues and bitching about the Lakota and the Lakota War. If those issues went away, they’d complain about the statue being emblematic of the “white patriarchy” and “systemic racism.”
They cannot be reasoned with and, frankly, we shouldn’t even try. The bitter and deluded are legion.
The ones to go after are their political, social, and financial enablers. Make the lives of those persons very miserable and let them know why.
There is some slight evidence that this turning may be in the offing. Hopefully, the process will be peaceful. But I don’t think it will be.