I'm beginning to think that the real reason why the Dead White Males who effected the first rebellion are being supplanted in the nation's pantheon by a more "diverse" array is not really because they are dead, white, or male, but because anyone contemplating their casus belli would have to admit that we have it far, far worse now than under Crown rule.
And as I have often written, either the rebellion against the Crown was unjustified, or . . .
The same goes for the removal and eventual criminalisation of all signs and symbols of the Confederacy. Of course, the Establishment will openly claim that the the CSA was evil because of slavery, but I am convinced that their real crime is perceived to be rebellion against Leviathon. If the modern critics of slavery were genuinely interested in human rights, they would level even greater vitriol at the mill and factory owners in the North whose DOCUMENTED treatment of their workers was only slightly more humane than the treatment of workers at the I.G.Farben factory at Oswieczim.
We might as well enjoy these discussions now because the days of free poltical discourse will be coming to an end in our lifetimes. It's all in the eventually-to-be-discovered penumbra of Mr. Bush's security measures. I'm sure the Democrats have already drawn up their Enemies Lists, even as they applaud our "War on Terrorism."