Posted on 08/18/2017 5:36:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Only those who are so-called “woke” (I just threw up in my mouth) are deserving of statues in American history. That’s what CNN commentator Angela Rye said during a panel discussion with CNN’s Kate Bolduan. As the nation descends into chaos concerning political commentary over the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia that left scores of people injured and one woman dead, we’re on the discussion of statues. White nationalists descended into the city last Saturday to supposedly protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. Far left counter protesters arrived and skirmishes broke out. It culminated when a white nationalist drove into counter demonstrators, killing one and injuring 19 others.
Now, we have more cities debating the removal of Confederate statues. Katie wrote how a solid majority of Americans oppose the erasure of American history. Yet, with Rye’s remarks, we now know that this is about removing anyone who they feel were terrible in our history. Washington owned slaves; he has to go. Jefferson owned slaves; he has to go. Oh, we can of course learn about the founding of our nation in classrooms, but by God—when you erect a statue to the men who founded this great country, that’s crossing the line. The Washington Free Beacon clipped the insanity, where Rye gets into a bit of an exchange with Daily Beast’s John Avlon, who said Rye was feeding into the Trump White House’s talking points on the matter. He’s not wrong [emphasis mine]:
CNN Commentator Says Washington, Jefferson Statues Should Come Down
George Washington was a slave owner, and we need to call slave owners out for what they are, whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not," Rye said. "He wasn't protecting my freedom. My ancestors weren't deemed human beings to him."
"So to me, I don't care if it's a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue or a Robert E. Lee statue. They all need to come down," Rye said.
Rye added that Americans need to teach other about these figures "so we do not repeat [history], because we are very close to repeating it right now."
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"Yeah, Angela, you've got a problem here," Avlon interjected.
"I'm not finished, John," Rye said.
"You're feeding into Steve Bannon and Trump's talking points," Avlon continued.
"No, no, no. But I'm not, but I'm not, but I'm not, John," Rye said, speaking over Avlon.
"And I'm gonna finish my point," she said. "I'm not feeding into white supremacy; I'm calling out white supremacy for what it is. And sometimes what it is, John, are blind spots. Sometimes what it is, is not acknowledging that this country was built upon a very violent past that resulted in death, and the raping, and the killing of my ancestors."
Rye said she was not going to make a distinction between George Washington and Robert E. Lee.
"So I'm not going to allow us to say it's OK for a Robert E. Lee but not a George Washington [statue]," Rye said. "We need to call it what it is."
"But I'm not giving any deference to George Washington or Robert E. Lee," she added.
Slavery was a horrible institution. We fought our bloodiest war to end it. Yet, these were the times our Founding Fathers lived in. the founded this country. They drafted the documents that said our people were endowed with God-given rights from which this nation would be based upon; a totally revolutionary concept to the nations created around monarchies, ethnic groups, and landed aristocracies of Europe. This is just another instance of American progressives engaging in their favorite pastime: erasing American history and slamming our founding. So, let it be known that this isn’t just about the Confederate monuments, which by the way, are also part of American history. Our nation has had many low points. We have progressed, we have gotten better, and yes, more work needs to be done in a lot of areas. But no one knew that statues existed. No one really cares. Yet, now that we have the legions of the politically correct poisoning our society, they want everything that they feel triggered in American history to go. As many have said about this group, there is no neutral party option; they will make you care. The removal of Confederate statues is the backdoor to this nonsense.
Washington was our first president, but we can’t have statues? Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, but we can’t have statues? Sorry, liberals—you’re not raising Monticello or Mount Vernon to the ground. This debate has gone off the rails and this trainwreck isn’t done yet.
“Slavery was a horrible institution. We fought our bloodiest war to end it.”
I’d have a lot more respect for this woman’s point of view if she went to the Arabian Peninsula and called out the King of Saudi Arabia for allowing the practice of slavery to exist in his kingdom. But that would take real moral & physical courage. Statues dont cut your head off for getting out of line.
a-men
I said it along during the whole controversy over the “Washington Redskins”, that first they go after the “Redskins”, then they go after the “Washington.”
Mount Rushmore? I hope the Democrats and the Repukes get backed into a corner on having to run elections calling for the destruction of monuments throughout the country. Should be quite entertaining.
Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines that fought in the Civil war were made U.S. Veterans by an act of Congress in in 1957, U.S. Public Law 85-425, Sec 410, Approved 23 May, 1958. This made all Confederate Army/ Navy/ Marine Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans. Additionally, under U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by the 17th Congress on 26 Feb 1929 the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate grave sites as U.S. War dead grave sites. Just for the record the last Confederate veteran died in 1958. When you remove a Confederate statue, monument or headstone, you are in fact, removing a statue, monument or head stone of a U.S. VETERAN.
18 U.S. Code § 1369 - Destruction of veterans’ memorials (a) Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (b), willfully injures or destroys, or attempts to injure or destroy, any structure, plaque, statue, or other monument on public property commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both. (b) A circumstance described in this subsection is that— (1) in committing the offense described in subsection (a), the defendant travels or causes another to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or uses the mail or an instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce; or (2) the structure, plaque, statue, or other monument described in subsection (a) is located on property owned by, or under the jurisdiction of, the Federal Government.
Bill Clinton, game show host.
Tell them what they’ve won, Al!
Many of the slaves at Mount Vernon were not his slaves but slaves inherited by Martha, and he had no legal authority to free her slaves. He provided for his own slaves to become free at her death but also wanted to avoid breaking up families—and some of his slaves were married to some of her slaves. It was a complicated situation since he also needed to figure out a way that the former slaves could make a living—in an economy very inhospitable to free black workers.
The leftists/globalists have made slavery the “original sin” of the United States of America. Since our national sin is original, there is nothing that we can do to assuage it (e.g. emancipation, civil war, civil rights, etc.), short of being “born again”. How does a nation become “born again”? Only by being destroyed and then rebuilt as a communist utopia!
The truth is that United States of America is among the least culpable for slavery in the entire world! Fewer numbers of African Slaves came to North America than to Asia, Africa, or South America. We fought a massive war to end slavery and participated in stopping the international slave trade that the Muslims perpetuate!?!
Wow its a good thing she said this on FNN so no one saw it.
Wow its a good thing she said this on FNN so no one saw it.
The Lincoln Memorial needs to go.
Trump can govern from his tower in NYC.
Liberals need to send all of their dollar bills, which are tainted by the image of the guy who put the country on the map, to me.
Without Washington this would still be a collection of British colonies.
Agree with that too.
Republicans will be ignored—the old media yet retains the power to lie and manipulate for the democrats, aka, the left. This will come down to where the military is ordered to go to stop the leftists from looting, assaulting, and burning our cities and towns.
Perhaps we should erect some monuments to their cannibalistic ancestors, or maybe to Idi Amin, or obamugabe.
They will go after the American flag too. Of course all whites on our money will have to go too. They already changed one for that black woman.
I do not see how this movement will eve stop. No one is even trying to stop it. Sad and horrible.
Washington, D.C. must go!. Named after a slave owner.
Can't have any buildings with Greco-Roman architecture becuase the Greeks and Romans owned slaves.
Get rid of the Washington Monument because its named after a slave owner, and is in the shape of an Egyptian symbol - Egyptians owned slaves. /s
We have to get rid of all those dollar bills as well. If everyone in the country sends them to me, I know how to dispose of them properly.
It doesn’t end, those who forget history are dammed to repeat it.
In this case we are looking at repeating a lot more than just the Civil war. Rome is burning and Cesar is on the way to ‘save’ it.
Dictatorship is our most likely fate, althou i must admit if we do split up we stand a far better chance of preserving liberty thou intrastate competition. Some states will do better than other at resisting dictators, and the ones that do will remind the ones that don’t what they lost so that they can reclaim it.
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