The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP has called for the removal
of the famous Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, Georgia, that
depicts Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, three complicated
figures who are immensely important to history. This in the Era of Tolerance of All Things?
Islamic
terrorists knocked down the Twin Towers and killed 3,000 innocents, yet we
don’t call for the evisceration of any Muslim
symbols. In fact, we decided a “Ground
Zero Mosque” would be a good thing!
In that same context we should have “United Daughters of the Confederacy”
booths at the Shiloh and Antietam national battlefields.
And why
aren’t there calls for the removal of other famously racist symbols… like the
Democratic Party itself? I mean, George Wallace (“segregation now, segregation
tomorrow, segregation forever), Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (who helped put the
Confederate flag above the South Carolina courthouse), Robert Byrd (Klan Leader & ‘Exalted Cyclopes’!),
Woodrow Wilson (supported segregation in the South and re-segregated the federal government) and Eugene “Bull” Connor
(ordered police dogs and fire hoses to be let loose on peaceful demonstrators
led by Martin Luther King) are a who’s who of famous American racists, and there
are too many more to list!
It was right to abolish slavery. 620,000 American soldiers died in the conflict that helped accomplish this.
It is wrong to abolish history.
It was right to abolish slavery. 620,000 American soldiers died in the conflict that helped accomplish this.
It is wrong to abolish history.
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