[ April 19, 2024 ]
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As an effort to remove Confederate statues and symbols is gaining pace, being supported by Democrats and some GOP senators, American observers have debated the ongoing war on historical monuments amid the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests and its potential consequences.
Story continues below advertisementThe Senate Armed Services Committee has adopted an amendment to the annual spending bill which would strip Confederate names from military bases and other Pentagon facilities within the next three years. Earlier this week, a US Army spokesperson stated that the Department of Defence is “open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic”.
However, Donald Trump strongly rejected the idea on Wednesday, triggering the question of whether one should expect clashes between GOP lawmakers and the president over the latest amendment.
The initiative comes amid the George Floyd protests, which have engulfed the nation since 26 May over the alleged killing of a 46-year old African-American by a white police officer during his arrest.
‘Effort to Topple Confederate Statues is Long Overdue’
BLM protesters are continuing to vandalise and topple Confederate statues and symbols, saying that they are glorifying the era of slavery and the oppression of blacks in the US. Rioters granted Christopher Columbus statues no quarter either, beheading and throwing them down in Boston, Miami and Virginia.
Democrats supported the initiative, with House Speaker Pelosi calling for the removal of 11 statues representing Confederate leaders and soldiers from the US Civil War from the US Capitol. “Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed,” the speaker stated in a letter to US congressmen.
”The new effort to topple or more surgically remove Confederate statues and other symbols, rename Army bases, and teach a more accurate version of history in American schools is long overdue,” opines Professor Peter Kuznick, an expert on twentieth-century American history.
According to him, the US should “honestly confront” its history of slavery, which “has tainted and corrupted America’s soul ever since”.
“The documented murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers in broad daylight has laid bare the ugly reality of racist policing that has plagued the United States for more than 400 years since the advent of slavery in this country”, he insists, suggesting that the Americans “must take advantage of this unique and extraordinary historical moment to make some deep structural changes in American life.”
Thomas Mackaman, associate professor of History at King’s College Wilkes-Barre, agrees with Kuznick: according to him, many of Confederate monuments were erected “during the era of Jim Crow segregation from the 1890s through the 1960s” “to justify the oppression of the Jim Crow era by romanticising the slave past and falsifying the purpose of the Southern Cause”, an ideology presenting the Confederacy’s viewpoint on the reasons behind the civil war.
Still, the professor expresses concerns that “the Democratic Party, which was the party of slavery and Jim Crow,” is apparently seeking “to divert this movement with identity politics, and to take advantage of the justified anger against symbols of the Confederacy to attack the American Revolution and its great figures like Thomas Jefferson,” the one who declared that “all men are created equal”.
‘Many Americans Don’t Want to See Our History Erased’
For her part, Pamela Geller, a political activist, blogger and commentator cites obvious contradictions in the Dems’ narrative.
“The Democrats say they want the Confederate statues removed because they depict slave-owners,” she says. “While that is true, it is also true of some (not all) of the Founding Fathers, and most of the human race in all nations throughout history.”
The political activist sees the Democrats-backed war on historical monuments as “part of the ongoing effort to make Americans ashamed of their past, as if there were something uniquely terrible in it, so as to weaken their resolve to defend our nation now”.
One should bear in mind that “America fought a bloody and devastating civil war to end slavery, leaving over 600,000 dead, and has always had political leaders who fought for civil rights,” something which is completely ignored by the proponents of removal of the statues, she points out.
“The Left is trying to make us all unaware of those facts and consumed with hatred for our own country,” she opines, warning that the recent offensive against the US historical memory “will do nothing but deepen divisions” within the already-polarised American society.
“Many Americans don’t want to see our history erased and will be angered at Democrats for demanding this and Republicans for playing along. It will set Americans who think we should be ashamed of our history against those who don’t,” the blogger foresees.
‘Erasing the Past Dooms Those in the Present’
“To date, America’s Civil War, remains a chapter, as with prior years, that deserves close study and careful review not by dogmatists, but by open-minded scholars,” highlights Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist. “Yes there were scoundrels and yes there were heroes on both sides of that bloody war.”
He bemoans the fact that intolerant consideration of the past “has moulded too many minds, including too many ‘thoughtleaders'”. So, answering the question of what lay behind the Dems’ recent attack on the history of the American Civil War, one would say that it’s “ignorance”, the analyst believes.
According to him, “the assault against history” in the US arguably took modern root around 1970, and has been continuing ever since, as leftist scholars have gradually taken over many institutions of learning and woven together narratives, now considered “mainstream”, that concentrates upon failures of previous American generations.
“Erasing the past dooms those in the present and future to make the same or worse mistakes than our ancestors made,” Ortel points out. “Doing so is actually juvenile and ignorant. Destroying historical monuments closes out the possibility to gain deeper understanding of how our ancestors thought in their time. If they venerated evil, let the monuments stand as a warning that evil is sly and seductive, and that humans are too quick to fall under its spell.”
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48 Comments
3 years ago
As this assault upon conservative mementoes of the nations past has already started, perhaps actions of a similar nature against the totems of the progressive left could be included, after all, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Give them a taste of their own medicine for a change, see how they like it.
One thing is sure, backing off to Democrats and the ANTIFA mob only invites more of the same.
3 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Just burn Karl Marx and Lenin in effigy, and watch what happens. Not so much happiness from those commies… They will call the cops!
3 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
I realize that it’s quite a bit different, in the UK, than in the US. However, over here conservative media and politicians seem to be blaming the fascist group of antifa for everything. Yes, they have done many horrendous things. Yet, when it comes to the looting, violent attacks, willful destruction, rapes and murders that are currently being labelled as “peaceful protests”, MOST of those foul deeds are being perpetrated by black lives matter.
3 years ago
Reply to
Poppey
Let’s start with the #1 Communist agitator, MLK! Then,move on to FDR and LBJ, I could add a few more but as long as we are going to destroy the past let it be equal opportunity destruction.
3 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
MLK was also a jailbird and Adulterer. These statues must come down. You see two can play that game.
3 years ago
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3 years ago
They are not taught truthful history in school (K-12 and higher education)
and have been indoctrinated to hate our country. This is why they do it. Those
pushing this on them want to change our country into a country worse off then Venezuela.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
felix1999: Two things: I didn’t know about the Lenin statue and WHY do we have one in our country?
And the statue of Robert E, Lee has already been removed in spite of strenuous objections by most of the white community there, now a minority; I grew up and spent most of my life in New Orleans and this makes my blood boil.
Just wondering: did you ever attend a grade school military academy in New Orleans?
3 years ago
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3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
We saw his last one. Everyone in the theater clapped and cheered.
3 years ago
All this talk of slavery and none about the fact millions of black Africans are being enslaved by muslums in Mali, Mauritania and the Sudan. Because some black lives don’t matter — especially if they’re Christians.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I agree. black Americans don’t see that!!! just like that other idiot mohamental ali formerly known as the great casius clay. America is a gr8 country she looks after other shithole countries like japo after it was bombed out to stop ww2! no people don’t see that not even our soul brothers.
3 years ago
1) Be intoxicated in public
2) Provoke a citizen complaint
3) Resist arrest
4) Accomplish suicide by cop
5) Repeat
3 years ago
I recommend reading the book Company Aytch, by Sam Watkins, Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment, Or a Side Show of the Big Show. This is a personal account of a Confederate infantryman from the beginning to the end. It is outstanding in its writing and was plagiarized by Stephen Crane word for word in places in Crane’s book The Red Badge of Courage. Watkins was an exceptional writer, survived, got married, and raised a large family of Confederates. He owned no slaves. It is a heart breaking work and becomes hard to turn the next page. Especially chilling is the bloody battle at Death Angle.
3 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
Thank you. I always found the Red Badge of Courage to be a little unrealistic WRT the civil war and it seemed to be an artistic impression of such rather than a experienced one and now I know why.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Thank you for the link. It was free on Kindle. Very expensive in hard cover.
3 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
NPs : )
Yes they usually are. Amazon make a killing on such copyright free books using the obscurity excuse and I wont use them any more as they are dishonest.
3 years ago
Reply to
sodacrackers2
I love my kindle, but there’s just something special about holding that book in my hands.
3 years ago
Reply to
LittleRoot_48
I know the feeling. Now when I am reading an actual book, I find myself touching the corner of the page instead of turning the page. Funny thing, on vacation, the younger people were all reading books, and the older ones had kindles.
3 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
The arrogant Europeans despite having many observers on both sides, did not deign to learn anything from the civil war and so were forced to learn it the hard way in WW1. Everything used in WW1;trains, trenches, massive artillery, etc(perhaps tanks and MGs were the exception…yes I know that gatlings did appear near the end but did not see much use IIRC) had already been shown to them but they “knew better”. That was why the casualties were so high in both wars
3 years ago
Reply to
lostlegends
I just went on Amazon (ugh) and ordered 5 more books about the Civil War. All of them deal with the lies that are told about the South and the Confederacy and I also ordered another copy of Gone With the Wind.
3 years ago
If these statues are sooooo offensive to black people, why weren’t they calling for their removal 40 years ago?
20 years ago?
10 YEARS AGO??
If they’re going to be that butthurt, then I want all MLK statues removed! He was a womanizer and as a woman, I find it offensive and misogynistic.
How do you like that, BLM thugs??
3 years ago
Muslims always have practiced slavery and still do, so why aren’t these people who are burning down churches and business also burning down mosques?
After all, Muhammad was a slave owner and seller.
3 years ago
Reply to
Merlinever
Truth is irrelevant to all fanatics and especially those whose aim is the creation of a “new” society based upon their nebulous idealistic dreams thanks to their brainwashing. You cannot debate with hem. You cannot reason with them, and ever simple disagreement makes you (in their eyes) a justified target and any truth that is painfully obvious is ignored. The Left and muslims have much in common here. Both need a dire lesson.
3 years ago
The only reason for removal of Statues is “Change” there is no reason required other than “Obama wants Change and we change agents are doing it, We don’t care who the president is nor what the majority want”
3 years ago
The difference between ISIL’s destruction of
Syria’s historic Palmyra ruins, and of American cities and their
historic artifacts by their sociopathic counterparts, BLM and Antifa, is
what?
3 years ago
Those historical markers and monuments serve the same purpose as leaving the gates and ovens at Auschwitz in place, as a lesson from history.
As Spanish philosopher George Santayana phrased it, “Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it.”
3 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Spot On! But these scum never learn as they “know” it all already.
3 years ago
I just love how these “academics” can justify any obscene Leftist behaviour. The moral and intellectual prostitution of these scum makes real hookers look like angels.
3 years ago
Their reason for destroying the ‘old’ statues of American history is to bring in the ‘new’ replacement of islamic ideology(and with it sharia law-they hope!!) supported by the leftist wickedness of designed oppression against ‘white’ America. l make it clear to you ‘Black lives matter’ people and you islamic traitors to America(which you are truly not a part of anyway!!) l have you to know that the land of America and the land of Australia and the British isles(England and lreland) was for-ordained for the descendants of the children of lsrael(whom Moses brought through the Red Sea to the promised land by the hand of God the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY himself). And to you islamic muslims who remain blind and wickedly so the Lord God our creator is looking upon his people lsrael(USA,Australia and Britain – NATIONAL ISRAEL) and shall only allow you to prosper in your agenda(islam s initiative to establish islamic culture and sharia law by stealth supported by mans deceitful corrupt minds) in the lands for only a certain time then HE shall burst through the clouds of heaven in his wrath and shall deal with all islam in the earth for their wickedness and the evil they have done in the earth …be assured of that- IT IS COMING SOON!! And to you jews the new world order is not your business it is the Lord Gods affair. There is e a new world coming where every single living human being surviving after nuclear war and Gods wrath(he shall shake the earth and ALL the buildings shall fall) shall know their creator that he is indeed the Lord God Almighty of the BIBLE and rightly so. AND TO ISLAM L WRITE -“Who do you think you are!!??
3 years ago
Barack Obama hates White people, Jews and Police. There are examples of thus throughout his Presidency. In fact thus bun could not even get up and go to the 150th Anniversary of the battle if Gettysburg. The bloodiest battle and loss if American lives in our history.
3 years ago
Rewriting history is standard Marxist-Leninist doctrine.
3 years ago
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wwaaahhh!! we don’t like history so let’s erase it!!”
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it amazes me that these whack jobs are so ignorant of history, and the FACT that slavery was imbedded in islam long before slavery ever came to America, yet the FACT that islam STILL practices slavery does not seem to bother these nutters
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otherwise, they would be burning down mosques, not cities
3 years ago
Need to understand the war was only to preserve the union until mid 1863 , when lac of northern support caused Lincoln to make it about slavery .
3 years ago
Of course “they” want to past erased ……. without the past, there is no TRUTH for others to see and the “truth” becomes “what ever ‘they’ say it is”.
3 years ago
When you remove a country’s history, you transform the country into a communist regime.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mohammed_Goldberg
That’s been their goal all along. Do they even teach Americanism vs Communism in school anymore? Probably not….along with Civics and American Government. We know that American History books have been revised.
3 years ago
Fine, then tear down the statues of Lenin, Marx, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, And any other progressive commie idiots.
3 years ago
Many of the South were neither for or against slavery, but the government of the South called them to arms. So generals and other officers did not own slaves, but again fought because their civilian government ordered them to do so. But hey, everyone south of the Maison-Dixon line were slavers, right?
Virtually all the idiots attacking statues and monuments (all frozen in time, unarmed, all just sitting there all not defending themselves, all slaves to their master who created them of stone and bronze) don’t even know the history of how blacks became slaves in the US and other parts of the world. Black tribal leaders raided other tribes for prisoners to sell to the muslims of North Africa. They also sold members of their own tribes to muslim slavers. When it was to their convenience they even sold their own slaves to the muslims. So why not go after their forefather for selling them off as a commodity instead of those who purchased product that was sold and purchased commonly around the world back then.
But let’s not have facts and truth get in the way of a good destructive riot while the police stand back and watch.
3 years ago
Why is there a statue of lenin in America?!
3 years ago
Reply to
Mark Noble
I’ve always wondered that myself. Wish someone would tell us whose idea it was to put it up in Seattle.
3 years ago
All who call themselves African-American should thank GOD that their ancestors were lucky enough to be on a slave ship to America. Those who didn’t were sold to Arab-moslem slave traders , castrated and worked to death so there was no prodigy to survive and complain about their travails. Our black citizens owe their very existence to America that has raised them to the highest positions in our country. How ungrateful the welfare class is!
Islam is using the black community as a weapon to tear down our historical monuments as islam’s koran forbids human likeness and it is a symbol of their conquering of nations.
A vote for a democrat is a vote to bring America under islamic sharia slavery.
3 years ago
Yes, Ms. Geller, “America fought a bloody and devastating civil war to end slavery leaving over 600K dead, and has always had political leaders who fought for civil rights.” So why are you rooting for those who want to leave UP the statues and base names honoring those who were the traitors who tried to tear apart our country, who fought on the wrong side of the slavery issue, and whose continued glorification represents continued racial hate? Jeff Davis was not one of those “political leaders who fought for civil rights.” Neither was Robt. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, or Nathan Bedford Forrest. It’s the “political leaders who fought for civil rights” who want to take those statues DOWN. Sometimes you amaze me with your logic, or lack of it.
