Monday, August 14, 2017

Nothing Uglier Than Racism and Failure


Treason, racism, and insurrection stain this nation again.

It's time for the Civil War monuments and statues to come down.

It's time to rename the schools and the roads for real Americans who believe in E Pluribus Unum.

This is not about "history."  

In Germany, there are no Hitler statues, and no one flies the swastika.

In Italy there are no statues to Mussolini and they do not fly a fascist flag.

Only in America do we put up statues to traitors who lost a war whose sole purpose was to maintain the slavery of its own populace -- a slavery every bit as pernicious and horrible as what the Nazis and Italians did to their populations in Germany and Italy.

If it's an identity that young people seek, I would suggest celebrating 300 years of music, food, and art rather than four years of failed insurrection to preserve slavery and the subjugation of other Americans in a brutal system of segregation and apartheid.

Celebrate the Delta Blues, the Memphis Blues, North Carolina barbecue, and Virginia Blue grass.

Celebrate good dogs and fast horses. Celebrate wild lands and wildlife. Celebrate anything but sedition, secession, slavery, racism, and brutality.

Why does this even need to be said?



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