A trite truism is that those who do not
learn from history are bound to repeat it.
So why are lefty libs all about erasing US history when it comes to the
Civil War? Lex is no fan of the Confederate
flag. It is a symbol of a revolution
that nearly destroyed the union. I do
not think it deserves government support outside museums and educational
material.
That said, I cannot work myself into a
lather over some guy who flies that flag from the back of his pickup truck or
puts one up in his front yard or nearly anything else a guy might do with that
flag. Nor do automatically transfer the
term “racist” to people who fly that flag.
I don’t know. It’s sort of like when
I see some dumbazz in a Che T-shirt. I
don’t assume he’s a commie bastard. In
most cases they are just ignorant hipsters trying desperately to draw attention
to themselves by sporting a t-shirt with a murdering commie bastard’s likeness
on it.
The current purge in America of all
things Confederate strikes me as a bit Soviet like. When Stalin “erased” someone he went so far
as to erase them from official photos and records as well. When Pharaohs in ancient Egypt changed, the
new Pharaoh would often have the old Pharaohs chiseled from edifices and
replaced with their own. When ISIS and
other Islamo-Terror-Fascist scum roll into a new area they go on the prowl for
antiquities and religious symbols that they can wantonly destroy in the name of
their god of peace and tolerance.
So when Vanderbilt University shells
out a million plus dollars to sand blast the word “confederate” from a couple of
buildings, I think WTF. First off it’s a
private university. They can do whatever
they want, but are the snowflakes at Vanderbilt so fragile as to not be able to
look at a word on a building in some historical context without dropping to the
ground wailing like a recalcitrant 2 year old at naptime? Seems to me the words ought to stay as a
historical context of race in America at an “institution of higher learning”.
I do not know what to do with the
plethora of Confederate War Memorials, schools and other building named after
Southern icons that dot the south and pay homage to what were essentially
traitors. Sure that’s a strong word and
much worse than the word “racist” in my book.
So if can put honors to traitors in historic context, why can’t race
baiters? It seems to me that these
memorials and “naming rights” to public buildings were part of healing the
nation after the Civil War. So if that
worked for people when the emotions and wounds were the rawest, why all the
fuss now that those wounds have scabbed, scarred over?
My sense is that that we ought to leave them alone least we look like old Soviet style dictators trying to airbrush our history. If they must go, they should be carefully preserved and displayed in an appropriate setting least we look like intolerant ISIS double D-bags.
One thing is certain. No matter what is done, it will not be
enough. Black Thugs Matter and the usual
race baiting excrement heads will be protesting at the buildings where the word
“Confederate” was sandblasted bitching about how racist Vanderbilt was and
remains.
Nothing will be sufficient to put a
dagger into the race baiting industry.
There are too many race baiters making a living and political hay off of
the divisions for them to ever say, “Well now that we’ve melted down all of those
Confederate statues and turned them into MLK statues we can finally put end to
the charges of racism in America.”
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