What is interesting is as King's star has risen politicians and professional ethnic agitators have been acting as the foot soldiers in a long Gramscian campaign to delegitimize, stigmatize and eventually erase much of what has been our national pantheon. The clearest example is the purging of Robert E Lee. Until about 1990 Lee was one of the most admired figures in US history. I am not going to provide the reasons for this at length other than to say he was for many in all parts of the nation the national knight without reproach, the American Bayard with better personal morals. Both Presidents Eisenhower and Truman displayed Lee's portrait in the Oval Office and Truman chose a large portrait of Lee to hang in the foyer of his presidential library. perhaps a final comment on Lee's relationship with the civilian head of government Jefferson Davis compared to Truman's relationship with MacArthur.
In the city near me a very large statue of Lee was removed because the mayor said it represented part of a past that needed to be forgotten in the new borderless, culturally fluid world. Perhaps so but I can only wonder what a society that would purge Robert E Lee for ‘being on the wrong side of history’ represents by adulating a man who at the least appears deeply flawed and morally and ethically challenged to the highest degree.
I’d say it represents how sick and degenerate we are as a society now.