Posted on 07/13/2015 1:46:21 PM PDT by jazusamo
In the wake of the recent murders in a South Carolina church, the killer's hope of igniting a race war produced the opposite effect. Blacks and whites in South Carolina came together to condemn his act and the race hate behind it.
Some saw in the decision to remove the Confederate flag from in front of the state house a symbolic repudiation of the old South's racial past and the end of the Civil War. But, unfortunately, wars do not end until both sides decide that it is over.
The black parishioners who expressed forgiveness toward the killer did more than most of us could do, and the whites who responded with solidarity did their part. Note how quickly this was done, by ordinary people of good will black and white without the "help" of racial activists like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
Professional race hustlers have no incentive to see our current civil war end. They see in this shooting only an opportunity to escalate their demands.
Now there are rumblings of demands that statues of Robert E. Lee and other Southern leaders be destroyed and if that is done, it will only lead to new demands, perhaps to destroy the Jefferson Memorial because Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. And if that is done, no doubt there will be demands that the city of Washington be renamed, for the same reason.
In short, there is no stopping point, just unending strife as far out as the eye can see. And just what will that accomplish? It could ultimately accomplish the killer's dream of racial polarization and violence.
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Sounds like you have a great dad!
I feel for him, having bad vision too. Technology, like printing in large font and increasing font size on tablets, etch, is a great thing.
“That Civil War is over but a new on is taking shape.”
I see mire rebel flags here than ever. They could have crossed the line here in the south.
No man in America embodies so much academic learning with so much common sense as Dr. Thomas Sowell.
Except, perhaps, his protege: Dr. Walter Williams!
I DO have a great Dad; I’m happy to help him out. Next up is a Jitter Bug Cellphone, LOL!
God Bless Thomas Sowell. Thanks for the ping jaz.
D.C. One of my favorite Cities in the U.S., albeit among the most dangerous.
Change the name? Works for me!
My choice?
Detroit, D.C. Adding the unalteralble proviso that the hell our elected criminals of both parties have created must remain their home and office. Permanently.
That should be a bumper sticker.
You’d make millions.
And which direction did the *Underground Railroad* go, again?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
It’s not the South that is racist, it’s the demonrats who are. No matter where they are.
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