Posted on 09/08/2017 11:35:05 AM PDT by Javeth
We are witnessing a growing trend of angry attempts to erase past racial injustices through attacks upon Civil War monuments, those symbolically associated with a tragic era of slavery.
Inflamed by violence leading to a death characterized in the media as a "white supremacist rally" protesting removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia hundreds of other statues, markers and other symbols memorializing important Confederate figures and events are now also under siege throughout the nation.
If we are to erase evidence and symbols of historical injustices, where does this end? After all, why stop with Confederate leaders when great blame for racial intolerance and misery can be attributed to Northern leaders for terrible oppressions directed to indigenous Indian populations?
Injustices against people like my great grandmother’s Winnebago tribal members who were forcibly relocated to reservations in Minnesota and Nebraska, for example.
So if we’re really serious about removing public memorials to "white supremacists," shouldn’t those who perpetrated devastating racial assaults upon true Native Americans be included? And why not begin with Grant’s Tomb in New York, N.Y.?
I’m referring, of course, to President Ulysses S. Grant, whose administration transferred vast tribal lands to private pioneers, land speculators, and railroad and mining companies.
If not actual genocide, his solution to the "Indian problem" certainly influenced a cultural genocide. As he explained, "I see no substitute for such a system, except in placing all the Indians on large reservations, as rapidly as it can be done."
As white settlers continued to push Indians off their tribal lands, those on reservations experienced increasing poverty and desperation. Meanwhile, Grant’s administration oversaw the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad and the great slaughters of the Plains buffalo which destroyed their traditional ways of life.
Rebellions against Grant’s Indian "peace policies" led to tragic massacres and military conflicts. Included were the Modoc War in California, the Red River War in Texas, the Nez Perce conflict in Oregon, and the Black Hills campaign and Battle of the Little Bighorn led by George Armstrong Custer.
Efforts by great chiefs such as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Geronimo and Cochise who led battles to preserve their lands and ways of life were ultimately defeated. They were no match for frontier generals commanding ever-growing armies and devastating weaponry.
As Oglala Chief Red Cloud told Grant upon visiting the White House in 1870, "The riches we have in this world . . . we cannot take with us to the next world. . . . "Then I wish to know why agents are sent out to us who do nothing but rob us and get the riches of this world away from us."
Grant predicted in 1874 that "a few years more will relieve our frontiers from danger of Indian depredations." Assisted by another Union leader, his prediction was provident.
General William Tecumseh Sherman who began his military career under then-General Grant in the first Battle of Bull Run of 1862 worked to bring about a "final Indian solution." In 1865 Sherman assumed command of a campaign against the Plains Indians in support of powerful politically-connected interests, including corporations involved in building the transcontinental railroads.
Following the War Between the States and his 1864 "scorched-earth" torching of Atlanta and pillaging of civilian properties which laid waste to lives and livelihoods along a large swath of Northern Georgia, Sherman renewed his Indian extermination conquest. In 1865 he was given command of the Military District of the Missouri which commenced a 25-year-long war against the Plains Indians.
As Sherman wrote to Grant in 1867, "We are not going to let a few thieving, ragged Indians check and stop the progress [of the railroads]." He clearly described his assigned Indian extermination objective as being "to prosecute the war with vindictive earnestness . . . till [the Indians] are obliterated or beg for mercy."
Sherman assured his subordinate General Philip H. Sheridan, "I will back you with my whole authority, and stand between you and any efforts that may be attempted in your rear to restrain your purpose or check your troops." This referred to prior authorization to kill as many women and children that Sheridan and his subordinates thought necessary when attacking Indian villages.
Both Sherman and Sheridan are forever associated with the slogan "The only good Indian is a dead Indian." So let’s also schedule the two large Washington, D.C. equestrian monuments dedicated to Sherman and Sheridan for demolition too.
Alternatively, we might heed some advice offered by Texas Governor Greg Abbot in an American Statesman article, "We must remember that our history isn’t perfect. If we do not learn from our history, we are doomed to repeat it . . . instead of trying to bury our past, we must learn from it and ensure it doesn’t happen again." He added that "tearing down" those symbols won’t change the past, nor will it help the nation’s future."
Only the libs failed to realized, two can play this game, and we can play it better. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan not only committed car crimes and act of genocide against the civilians of the South, the vast majority of whom did not own slaves and were themselves harmed by slavery, they also committed genocide against the Plains Indians as Professor Bell points out. Lee and Jackson fought honorably in their battles against well-armed opponents in the field. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan as contrast were cowards who attacked defenseless civilians, whether innocents in the South (including many freed black camp followers who Sherman especially hated) or the American natives. Lee, Jackson and Davis made it clear that civilians must never be attacked, and they fought with great honor. That is a major reason their statues are up across the nation. Grant, Sherman and Sheridan as contrast were bloody genocidal killers. It's their statues that must come down across the states.
Let’s put up some petitions on Change.org and write letters to the editor, contact local media about this and start the ball rolling to bring down the statues to these traitors and cowards. The Left will be tied up in knots, totally unable to respond. In this way the world will see their utter hypocrisy in their push to tear down the statues of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jeb Stuart, Richard Ewell and others who fought honorably and made sure the horrors of the Civil War did not fall upon civilian populations. Expose the liberals’ hypocrisy. This is how we beat them, and show they have no case.
The founder of islam was a slaver and his religion promotes slavery.
Yep, the Islamic slave traders of Arabia were practicing brutal African slavery for centuries before the West got involved, and it continues today. But the liberal media rarely talks about this, after all wouldn’t fit their convenient narrative.
The Left won’t care. If it’s white, it’s coming down. Period.
On to the Statue of Liberty.
Sherman? He was pretty effective at ending slavery.
Sherman? He was pretty effective at ending slavery.
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That’s right. And so did those hundreds of thousands of white dead who served.
Rather than tear down their statues, I suspect the Antifa types would rather emulate them.
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They are re-fighting the Civil War.
Only this time it’s Looney toons vs inanimate objects.
The monuments don’t have a chance against the stealth cowardice of the Looney toons.
They sneak up at night when the monuments are sleeping.
I’m afraid a large percentage of people couldn’t tell you which side those men were on. Half the people at a public event I went to years ago couldn’t tell which side won the war and whether the civil war was the one involving slavery. I cringe every time I think about that day.
What “traitors and cowards”?
To quote Jesse Jackson:
“If they be White, they must be made right and take em’ down”
Resolved, 1. That it is the right of any people, sufficiently numerous for national independence, to throw off, to revolutionize, their existing form of government, and to establish such other in its stead as they may choose.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:184?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
So in other words, he was for it before he was against it. Twice.
Sherman was a war criminal.
Then so was davis.
Lincoln was always favorable to the right of people to resort to revolution to throw off tyrants.
in the south we call him kerosene billy.
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