Posted on 02/03/2022 6:31:56 AM PST by Kaslin
It would seem that in our day, American history is being dismantled one statue at a time.
Just the other week, New York City removed a statue of Theodore Roosevelt. NBC notes: “The bronze sculpture of Roosevelt on horseback with Native American and African figures depicted subjugation and racial inferiority, the American Museum of Natural History said.”
A friend remarked, “The idea of erasing Teddy Roosevelt from that specific museum in New York---my goodness, they just made a beloved movie about 15 years ago where Teddy Roosevelt (played by Robin Williams, no less) comes alive at that very museum---is utterly absurd and is the work of Stalinists and Maoists.”
Two months ago, NYC had removed from the City Hall a statue of Thomas Jefferson because our third president had owned slaves.
Jefferson and slavery is a complicated subject. While he owned slaves, he did much to try and uproot the evil practice. I think he felt it was too massive to uproot in his day, but he helped work toward its eventual removal.
Of course, he was the author of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, which articulates a Biblical view of human equality---one incompatible with slavery.
As Jefferson put it, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
While Thomas Jefferson personally didn’t live up to the Biblical notions that he articulated in the Declaration, what he wrote still provides a worthy ideal to strive for---that we are created equal and have God-given rights.
Meanwhile, in Jefferson’s home town, Charlottesville, Virginia, the city council last year removed the statues of American explorers Lewis and Clark because the depiction of their Indian guide, Sacagawea, triggered many on the left as allegedly making her look obsequious.
Of course, Charlottesville was the place where there was an awful melee one weekend in August 2017, which left two policemen and one protester dead and 38 injured. The fight was over the threatened removal of the Robert E. Lee statute there. That particular battle over history drew blood. The statue has since been dismantled.
Imagine going through all the hardship of a dangerous trek for hundreds and hundreds of miles into the American wilderness, friendly and unfriendly, to see what was there.
Such was the case of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark---in their historic expedition in 1804-1806. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 during Jefferson’s presidency was America’s single-largest land acquisition. Suddenly, hundreds of square miles were instantly added to the United States of America.
Jefferson wanted to know what was on that land west of the Mississippi River, so his administration commissioned an expedition to report what was there. Hence, the Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis and Clark, both of whom had ties to Charlottesville’s Albemarle County, Virginia, wisely chose Native American Sacagawea (among others) as a guide to help them.
In 1919, when Charlottesville celebrated the unveiling of the Lewis and Clark (and Sacagawea) monument, Edwin A. Alderman, the president of the University of Virginia (founded by Jefferson a hundred years before) remarked, "They gave their youth to self-sacrifice, glory, and adventure...They were pioneers and pathfinders in a gigantic Odyssey beside which the wandering Greeks were timid and provincial."
In 2018, Dr. James S. Robbins, a writer for USA Today, wrote the book, Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past, warning us about our national historical revisionism.
In a radio segment in 2021, Robbins told me: “The things I wrote about in 2018 when the book first came out---and I was kind of speculating about some things and some worst case scenarios. But today they are part of the news. The way that what has been acceptable in terms of the campaign to eras our history has become [commonplace] over the past few years---it’s phenomenal, and it’s scary.”
In his book, Robbins writes, “The Founders were not fundamentally evil. Though flawed, they were great men who left a great legacy. We do not suffer the American nightmare; we live the American dream.”
And he adds, “For all its faults, for all its past mistakes, for all its present foibles, our country is still worth all the devotion we can muster.” Here. Here.
It seems like the followers of Marx are often succeeding in our day. He said, “Take away a people’s roots, and they can easily be moved.”
Why does the battle over history matter? Because a nation that doesn't know what it was yesterday doesn't know what is today, nor does it know where it's going tomorrow.
VIDEO Trump in 2017: Next they will take down statues of Washington and Jefferson
https://rumble.com/vpoj05-trump-in-2017-next-they-will-take-down-statues-of-washington-and-jefferson.html
Re-mantling American history, one audiobook at a time.
https://librivox.org/the-colored-patriots-of-the-american-revolution-by-william-cooper-nell/
All the handwringing over the value in removing certain statues a few years ago was, and still is, a waste of time. As the writer says at the end of this essay, erasing their target society’s history is a necessary & predictable step in the process of converting it to a communist state.
They can only change the past if we let them.
How well do we know our heritage and pass it on? Take a few minutes to study it, and mention it to the next generation.
I wear my MAGA hat and quite often a young person will say, “I like you hat.” I usually say, “where is yours?”
A better engaging question would be “Why do you like the MAGA Hat?”
‘...which articulates a Biblical view of human equality-—one incompatible with slavery.’
what nonsense; slaveholders in the US routinely cited biblical support for the ‘peculiar institution...’
Honestly--does it make any sense that people who claim to believe that all of reality is a meaningless coincidence with no significance whatsoever should be such crusading moral fanatics?
One thing about America, though..
It has a biblical government foundation.
13 colonies.
Christ and His 12 disciples.
50 states.
50, the number of Pentecost, and the birth of the New Covenant church.
Satan was allowed to enter and lead the church, just like in America..
But America isn’t like other nations in its founding nor in its current state..
It speaks to a biblical foundation. New Covenant foundation..
And those statues and monuments are due to come down at some point.
Just as Satan is due to be removed at some point.
Some Americans will lament the loss of history but they may not understand the history isn’t 200 plus years.
It’s about 2,000 years.
And this nation has been created unique.
And has a different track it’s on.
Not because of its own history.
But because of His Story..
***Lewis and Clark, both of whom had ties to Charlottesville’s Albemarle County, Virginia, wisely chose Native American Sacagawea (among others) as a guide to help them. ****
What has Charolettesville got to do with Sacagawea? They picked her and her French husband up at the Mandan villages in North Dakota, because she was captured from a farther West tribe and knew many of the languages. She had a great reunion when she reached her tribe.
She also had a baby(named Pomp) on the way, and after L&C reached the Pacific, but camped quite a few miles inland, leaving her behind, she insisted on seeing the Great Water she had led them to.
In the Liberal reconstruction of the American Indian histories in the 1970s’ one author said she died in 1884 a “bitter old woman” because she was their guide.
But others say...
“Records from Fort Manuel (Manuel Lisa’s trading post) indicate that she died of typhus in December 1812. However, according to some Native American oral histories, Sacagawea lived for many more years in the Shoshone lands in Wyoming, until her death in 1884.”
I remember the Red Guards. the more moderate Chinese had to protect thousands of Jade artifacts to keep them from being destroyed by the Red Guards.
History, before the Revolution means nothing to Radicals once they take over.
Even the US Patriots destroyed a statue of King George III. Some say It was melted down and cast into bullets to be returned at a high rate of speed to the British.
You left out the fact that Sacagawea had been captured and enslaved. Sold and re-sold to several tribes prior to Leiws & Clarke meeting her.
Yes the American Indians had slaves - enslaved captives from other tribes! I assume it was the consequences of those tribes losing drum circle contests, It couldn’t have been due to intertribal warfare! War is a Euro-Centric construct !
For every “WHAT” there is a “WHY”.
You just have to ask! You did...
"The Buffalo Soldiers (members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment) moved out of the trenches and up the hill. Units to the right began moving forward in a ripple effect to support the regulars. To the left of the 10th, a cheer went out from members of the 24th all-black Infantry Regiment, and they too moved toward the top of the heights."
bttt
Keep the Confederate statues, but add a white flag.
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