Posted on 08/14/2017 5:05:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
The white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville seemed to think that their movement is committed to taking America back. They are mistaken. They cannot take America back because it was never theirs in the first place.
It's true that the legacies of slavery and centuries of legalized racism have long tarnished our nation's history. That reality has always stood in conflict with our nation's founding ideals of freedom, equality, and self-governance. For too many years, white Americans simply ignored the contradiction that they didn't want to see.
That failure to confront evil allowed racists and white supremacists to continue their hateful traditions in America. But, from the very beginning, it has been our noble ideals that defined the nation and its aspirations. Both yesterday and today, being an American means believing that all of us are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The real shame, perhaps our greatest national shame, is that so many who believed in those high ideals never did anything about the grossly unfair and unequal treatment of African-Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr. called out such so-called "moderates" in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." How can you claim to believe in freedom and equality without standing up for those who are denied such basic rights?
Long before that, Frederick Douglas correctly noted that tolerating slavery while celebrating the Declaration of Independence made the celebration a "sham" filled with "fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy."
Tragically, many who believed the best about America turned a blind eye to this problem. On the other hand, those who advocated white supremacy never lost sight of the fact that their abhorrent views were threatened by America's noble traditions. John Calhoun, a leading defender of slavery, was frustrated that admiration for the Declaration had "spread far and wide, and fixed itself deeply in the public mind."
Calhoun rejected the ideal of equality and believed that black people did not deserve freedom. Such despicable views made Calhoun a traitor to America's founding ideals just as surely as Benedict Arnold was a traitor to the young nation in the War of Independence. The treasonous behavior continued when southern states explicitly rejected America's founding ideals and chose to fight a Civil War in defense of slavery.
Make no mistake about it, those who march under a banner of racism and white supremacy today are also traitors who reject America's founding ideals. They are not taking America back, they are trying to undo everything that makes America great.
Those of us who believe in freedom, equality and self-governance must not be silent.
In Politics Has Failed: America Will Not, I argue that it is well past time for the shameful strand of our history to die so that the noble strand can flourish. We must not only clearly denounce and reject the hateful voices that reject our founding ideals; we must also work together to create an inclusive society worthy of those ideals. We must accept nothing less than a free and self-governing society where, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., people "will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
So many people are falling for the MSM BS.
I can’t stand it anymore. If they knew who they were really puppets for they would be really really pissed off. They are just stupid. Losers given the PERMISSION to tell off their bosses, basically.
I thought this was a rally to save some statues?
What happened was an outright embarrassment for the nation.
Explain to me the “content of character” of the BLM.....
Those young ladies haven’t missed too many meals.
No hate,no fear,no exercise,I guess.
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I would wager that a large number of the “NAZIs” at that rally where liberals / anti-fa / White BLM supporters in freshly bought NAZI costumes.
Oh, okay.
Thank God no one is critical of BLM or ANTIFA. Since when did the white supremacy groups start showing up again? After Soro’s and Obama ran every thing into the ground and started planing their American spring type revolution based on hate! How many of the supposed white supremacists are on Georges payroll as well?
America was also founded on the second amendment and opposition to unfair tax policies and overbearing central governments. Just sayin”.
But if you “march under a banner of racism and non-white supremacy”, he’s cool w/that.
Excellent observation
Brave, virtue signaling from Town Hall. Disappointing.
Yepper, Black supremacy via BLM and Hispanic supremacy via LA RAZA be just fine though.
We just need to focus on the Constitution. Detroit today is as nice as Detroit in 1960 because, even though the population changed, the Constitution remained. Same for Los Angeles. These White Supreemists need to learn the Constitution. The entire country could be made up of migrants from Mexico and Somalia, as long as they have the Constitution, it’s still America. Diversity is our strength, and always has been.
So if there were objection to MLK statue removal, then THAT, too, would be racism...?
Or maybe people would be tickled pink about it, and it’d just be tucked away without fanfare..?
The MultiCulti will LIKE me if I stand idly by as my heritage is thrown into the garbage bin..?
Kay, well then I chose for you to HATE me.
You’ll like the honkies WHEN THEY’RE ALL DEAD —how nice of you.
I saw a large crowd of white protesters in Oregon this week marching in the streets chanting “Black Lives Matter!Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!”. There was one black person among a hundred white people. Guaranteed, they were on a payroll. They should have been chanting “Black Votes Matter Black Votes Matter Black Votes Matter! This is all organized and planned political theater designed to bring black voters back to the Democrat plantation, Black voters that didn’t turn out for Hillary.
This article should not be threatening or upsetting to any American...
"Honkies are just NO GOOD. So DIE..!"
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