Anyone care to peruse other topics your ilk here occasionally comment about will see quickly that you are more often on the wrong side of any culture war battle .
We won't take it forever...so enjoy it while you can.
This is about a helluva lot more than southern stuff or Columbus and the Injuns....we're just the most convenient targets....for now.
I have 5 kids...all in some form of education...and as a parent I deal with the damage your ilk has contributed to our entire American heritage and values system day in and day out and I despise you and your kind for that. You fixate on self serving white versus any minority bigotry and conveniently ignore your own and are oblivious to the cultural degradation around us no one dare confront.
You don't merit a place on this forum in my opinion. Your mindset has crippled this nation's ability to deal with Islam, homosexual marriage, and illegal immigration just for starters.
It may well destroy us...not the phantom racism of dead white men taken out of context. Unlike what you lament, what you laud is a clear and present danger to the Republic.
Re your #52. Excellent post and right on the money! It’s part of the overall culture war which the Left has declared on the Country. “Those people” are sickening and disgusting!
OMG! That post is AWESOME...in all caps!
People who have that mindset are, knowingly or unknowingly, commmitting national suicide!
We have a history...some of it is not nice...but all of it is our history. However, to try to rewrite it is despicable.
There are some who are trying to rewrite the founders, too.
As I said...despicable...and with an agenda.
Even on this forum...
R9, I think the thing that truly galls most of us is the selective outrage and subsequent selective action of the left.
The examples are pretty staggering, really. The recently reposed Senator Byrd is but one example. I mean how many buildings and bridges and what-have-you-else is named after Robert K. Byrd, former Klan recruitment officer? But he voted for healthcare, so it’s okay.
Or what about Lyndon Baines “We’ll have these n*****s voting Democrat for the next 300 years” Johnson? Perhaps the most morally bankrupt and depraved individual to EVER hold the office of President? I mean, there’s a stretch of highway in Dallas named after him. But he passed the Great Society, so it’s okay.
Have you ever read some of the quotes from Lincoln, The Great Emancipator? He was a neanderthal ethnic bigot by modern standards. But he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, so it’s okay.
I don’t want to pile on there or belabor the point, but there are a lot of examples like this. At the end of the day, the only point really I’m trying to make is that, maybe - just maybe, the best way to “break with the past” is to simply, actually, humbly, and quietly teach our children how to behave toward others, rather than take the cosmetic step of renaming buildings so we can take bows for our own self-righteousness to loud public ovation.
My man, I grew up in Mississippi in the 1970s. Came of age in the 1980s. My dad was a uniform patrol officer for the Jackson Police Department in the Civil Rights Era (and later a detective). I have heard some stories, let me assure you. My family has lived in Mississippi for generations. I left a dozen years ago to pursue my career and the advancement of my family.
I’ve lived in places where ethnic tension still seethes, and where it does not. In the places where it does not, there are two broad categories - those who have genuinely grown past it after having dealt with it, and those that have never had to deal with it at all. Speaking personally, I’ve found the latter are, generally, much more self-righteous about it (for really no discernable good reason, in my opinion - they just think they know better and everybody should listen to them - after all, look how great their lives are).
I realize that this has become verbose, but I’d like to share a story that really made me proud. It also made me really think.
The other day we were in the car and XM Radio was on. Andrew Wilkow’s show was on and he was undertaking a discussion of the NAACP making a public statement about the Tea Party movement.
My 12-year-old son asked me, “Dad, why are black people so mad all the time?”
Floored. FLOORED.
I said, “Son, I don’t really guess that all black people are mad all the time. What you need to understand is that black folks had it particularly rough in our country for a really long time. It’s not really that way anymore. The vast majority of people have moved past it and most people don’t really care what color anybody is. But there are some high-profile people who stay famous by keeping tension between white people and black people high - and I think really if they’d stop, tension between people of different races would just go away.”
He said, “What do you mean?”
My 10-year-old daughter was in the car also, and I looked up at them in the rearview mirror. I said, “Well, let me ask you guys a question. When you meet somebody brand new and you’re forming your first impression of them - of, say, the first ten things that cross your mind as you size them up - is one of those first ten things what color they are?”
They both said no. Immediately, no hesitation, no equivocation. I nearly choked up.
I’ve done a lot of things wrong in my life. My own sins are far too great for me to stand in judgement of anyone.
But maybe, just maybe, I got this one right with my kids.