Maybe resurrect the tributes to the Nazi regime in Yaphank, NY, maybe Timothy McVeigh got a bad break, let's resurrect that part of history with a statue of him in the state capitol. Maybe Andersonville should have monuments to the commander of that prison for what he did to prisoners of war, patriotic Union soldiers. And after all, what makes these Confederate statues so bad all of a sudden after 150 years?
And the slave ownership thing, Washington, Jefferson, all the slave owners, take their faces off the money? Well, what the Hell did Washington and Jefferson do to help their states succeed from the union, the very union they built and established as the greatest democracy in the world? There was no conscience of what slavery meant back in 1770, it was an economic worldwide acceptance that Black people were maybe one step higher than dogs. We have matured as a race of human beings, we should know better.
Was the KKK around when they were in office? Does anyone think that slavery would have been supported for long with the KKK in the picture by our forefathers? 250 years later we learned that blacks are equal, that no one should be a slave, and that if you support the continuance of Confederate flags, icons, and statues that we believe that your fellow human beings should still be held in slavery and oppression. Maybe having these symbols of our proud history will help rub the black faces into the same crap it tells us.
Not all history is good history, not all acts done by the USA were the best, in the best interest of the people. That is why we have churches that were bombed by so-called Christians, that is why these very same Christians turn their backs on their black neighbors when black children starve and cry themselves to sleep, we turn our backs and pretend we don't hear it. Yes, let's preserve our wonderful history. Let's ignore the marches of the Freedom riders, what the Hell was their problems. Trying to raise their children into a more equitable and loving world while interrupting our ball games of TV is totally unacceptable. Looking to raise a family on more than the barest meager jobs so their wives and children don't go to bed hungry, how dare them.
You may wonder why there is a disproportionate number of blacks in prison, so many of them on drugs. Don't they belong there? Ask yourself this: how many of them have any hope, hope of a better education that costs $25,000 a year on their salaries, so they go out and try to steal the money because they need to survive, no one wants to die. But die they do, and so do their children, so does their hopes and dreams for their families, and so they turn against the system that oppresses them. They run away because they are beaten, defeated, and stopped caring long ago in the fight to survive, meanwhile white people, the very same people who need these horrific reminders alive to ensure they are the master race, the people who want to keep these odious symbols alive can pay their health insurance, a college education for their children and preach about the wonderful part of history everyone seems to want to erase.
Sanitizing our history by removing statues is just not true. All that ugliness should remain in the history books where it is now and where it should be, as a teaching tool to never make those mistakes again.
By the way, when you speak of hard working parents, they didn't accept the masks or hoodies, nor the Confederate symbolism. Let's get real. Our parent's generation fought in the trenches and battlefields of Europe and the heat and humidity of the jungles of the South Pacific to liberate people from oppressions very similar to what we were practicing here in this country until someone shouted in our collective ears.
And the slave ownership thing, Washington, Jefferson, all the slave owners, take their faces off the money? Well, what the Hell did Washington and Jefferson do to help their states succeed from the union, the very union they built and established as the greatest democracy in the world? There was no conscience of what slavery meant back in 1770, it was an economic worldwide acceptance that Black people were maybe one step higher than dogs. We have matured as a race of human beings, we should know better.
Was the KKK around when they were in office? Does anyone think that slavery would have been supported for long with the KKK in the picture by our forefathers? 250 years later we learned that blacks are equal, that no one should be a slave, and that if you support the continuance of Confederate flags, icons, and statues that we believe that your fellow human beings should still be held in slavery and oppression. Maybe having these symbols of our proud history will help rub the black faces into the same crap it tells us.
Not all history is good history, not all acts done by the USA were the best, in the best interest of the people. That is why we have churches that were bombed by so-called Christians, that is why these very same Christians turn their backs on their black neighbors when black children starve and cry themselves to sleep, we turn our backs and pretend we don't hear it. Yes, let's preserve our wonderful history. Let's ignore the marches of the Freedom riders, what the Hell was their problems. Trying to raise their children into a more equitable and loving world while interrupting our ball games of TV is totally unacceptable. Looking to raise a family on more than the barest meager jobs so their wives and children don't go to bed hungry, how dare them.
You may wonder why there is a disproportionate number of blacks in prison, so many of them on drugs. Don't they belong there? Ask yourself this: how many of them have any hope, hope of a better education that costs $25,000 a year on their salaries, so they go out and try to steal the money because they need to survive, no one wants to die. But die they do, and so do their children, so does their hopes and dreams for their families, and so they turn against the system that oppresses them. They run away because they are beaten, defeated, and stopped caring long ago in the fight to survive, meanwhile white people, the very same people who need these horrific reminders alive to ensure they are the master race, the people who want to keep these odious symbols alive can pay their health insurance, a college education for their children and preach about the wonderful part of history everyone seems to want to erase.
Sanitizing our history by removing statues is just not true. All that ugliness should remain in the history books where it is now and where it should be, as a teaching tool to never make those mistakes again.
By the way, when you speak of hard working parents, they didn't accept the masks or hoodies, nor the Confederate symbolism. Let's get real. Our parent's generation fought in the trenches and battlefields of Europe and the heat and humidity of the jungles of the South Pacific to liberate people from oppressions very similar to what we were practicing here in this country until someone shouted in our collective ears.
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