Once again it seems America has come completely unhinged,
with the help of the mainstream “un-biased” media there to fan the flames of
our own cultural destruction. Sadly,
racism has always been a problem in our nation, and around the world, for that
matter. Even more sadly, it will always be present in our society to at least a hopefully minor extent. It is an inexcusable evil that, when
left unchecked, has resulted in the dehumanization of others so that they could
be exploited, enslaved, and even murdered.
Even more sadly, the number of people enslaved today throughout the
world in 2017 exceeds the numbers that were enslaved in 19th century
America. Many of these slaves today are
perniciously sold and used as sex slaves.
Yet despite such horrific numbers, America was doing far
better with its racism problem in recent times, until the last decade or so. We even had a majority of Americans vote for
our first black president. While I agreed
with very little of President Obama’s policies and had seen many disturbing
signs that had cracked his polished veneer while he was still running for the
White House, I too was buoyed by the fact that America in its decency could
indeed elect a person of color to the presidency. Indeed, I would venture that the timing in
our history was such that Barack Obama’s color was absolutely an asset to his
election. (Never mind the foolishness of
voting for someone simply because of their color, instead of their
qualifications.)
I was greatly disheartened, however, to see that rather than
further unite our nation as Americans, President Obama squandered the good will
bestowed on him by a significant majority and decided to insert himself into
more localized incidents; indeed he was often prompted to do so by the
complicit mainstream media once again. The
net result was that instead of us all simply being “Americans”, he further
divided us into hyphenated Americans, most especially black-Americans and
white-Americans.
Recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, there was a
relatively small gathering of assorted white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and various nut-job racists that gathered with a permit to exercise their first amendment rights to
spew their vile speech. It should have
been a minor story of only local interest, but sadly some Nazi-wannabe thought
it would be a great idea to become a domestic terrorist and kill people by
driving his car into a group of counter-protesters. Luckily only one lady was killed instead of the
dozens that could have been. This terrorist,
whom I will not name to give him further notoriety, will hopefully be punished
to the fullest extent of the law for his act of murder accordingly.
It seems that the inflamed result of this event for some of
our brothers and sisters on the far left is to insist on tearing down any
vestige of our national history if it is even tangentially connected to the
confederacy or even much of western civilization. Indeed, eight statues and monuments have been
destroyed, defaced, or pulled down by these radicals on the left since the
Charlottesville murder.
One of the monuments defaced was of St. Junipero Serra, who
was a priest and tireless advocate for Native Americans.
Another monument was a bust of Abraham Lincoln, which leads to the question;
do these idiots have any idea of what they are even protesting? They certainly don’t have any historical
knowledge evidently.
Recently, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz implored his
fellow liberals,
"Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America. Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left sensorial organization... They use violence. Just because they are opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments, should not make them heroes of the liberals. ... Doing what Stalin did, just erasing history and rewriting it to serve current purposes does pose a danger. And it poses a danger of education malpractice. I'm a liberal, and I think it’s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard-left radicals, just like it’s the obligation of conservatives to speak out against the extremism of the hard right.''
Professor Dershowitz makes a good point. Since the far-left hate groups of Black Lives
Matter and antifa want to tear down confederate statues, what is to stop them
from wanting to tear down monuments to Washington, Jefferson, and Madison? After all, these founding fathers were slave
owners too. What is the difference
between Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee to these ignoramuses?
It has been posited to me that Washington and Jefferson were
great founders of this country so their slave owning is somehow overlooked or
excused. I frankly don’t buy it, as
those guilty of tearing down statues to somehow hide our history don’t seem to
love the idea of America in the first place, so why would they leave its
founders alone?
Now personally I obviously don’t think any vestige of our founders
should be disturbed, much less destroyed, but for the sake of consistency on
the far left, how do they reconcile this disparity in their targeted
anger? Further, do these fools think
that by removing statues or defacing monuments, we will somehow purge our
history? We fought one of our bloodiest
wars over the sin of slavery. That sin
was paid for in blood. We need to
acknowledge that and try to make this nation one for all Americans again.
Today’s far right hate groups are grotesquely wrong in their
racism and hate. The far left hate
groups are likewise wrong in their counter-racism and hate. The calling out of the extremes on both the
left and right fringes should be the cause of every decent American.
That said, “both-siderism” is something that has taken a lot
of flak lately from some quarters, particularly from the far left. I suppose I am guilty of this from a
political perspective. But I really
don’t consider myself as pointing out what’s wrong on the left as a means of deflection
from the wrongdoing on the right. On the
contrary, I could care less what political persuasion one is. I am pointing out what is right and what is
wrong - period.
It is because of this
that I can unequivocally point out all violence, racism, and hate regardless of
the group that is fomenting it, whether it is from the KKK or the BLM; the
neo-Nazis or the antifa crowd. All are
despicable and all are deserving of decent Americans’ condemnation accordingly.
(And yes, some are indeed worse than others are, but that doesn’t give any of
them a free pass because their transgressions’ results of hate are less in body
count.)
At the end of the day, we need to come together once again,
regardless of color, faith, or political persuasion to call out against the
wrongs and evil in our society.
In the meantime, if folks want to help fight against white
supremacy, perhaps they should call out the evil of Planned Parenthood, which aborts
approximately 266 black babies every day.
Just a thought…
