Posted on 09/18/2017 5:03:13 AM PDT by SJackson
The Left’s Cultural Revolution intensifies.
The vandalization of a statute of University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson by students and Black Lives Matter rioters suggests the Left is escalating the ugly Cultural Revolution-style upheaval that President Obama encouraged in office.
This iconoclastic insurrectionism is spreading, as angry left-wing mobs topple statues of figures from the past they dislike. In Chicago, Bishop James Dukes of Liberation Christian Center is demanding that the names and statues of George Washington and Andrew Jackson be removed from parks. Others want Woodrow Wilson's name excised from buildings and schools because he supported racial segregation. The list goes on and on.
The disorder in Charlottesville comes as a monument in Baltimore honoring Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was spray-painted with the words “racist anthem.” Leftist writer Jefferson Morley suggested on Tucker Carlson’s TV show that the vandalism was justified, but more on that in a moment.
As about a hundred students chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no racist UVA,” the Jefferson monument on the school’s main quad was draped in black and adorned with signs reading, “Black Lives Matter,” “TJ is a racist,” and “Fuck white supremacy.”
The assault on September 12 came a month after the deadly, misnamed, abortive “Unite the Right” rally in the same town. The campus event was organized by the Black Student Alliance after UVA turned down its demand to suspend the First Amendment by banishing white-supremacists from campus and taking out various Confederate plaques.
“One month ago, we stood on the front lines in downtown Charlottesville as all manner of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and neo-fascists swarmed the area,” one speaker told the crowd. “Two months ago, the Ku Klux Klan rallied in their safe space, fully robed and fully protected by multiple law enforcement agencies who brutalized and tear-gassed peaceful counter-protesters.”
“We can and must condemn the violence of one month ago and simultaneously recognize Jefferson as a rapist, racist, and slave owner,” said the speaker, who could just as easily have been describing the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
“The visibility of physical violence from white supremacists should not take our attention away from condemning and disrupting more ‘respectable’ racists that continue to control the structures that perpetuate institutional racism.”
This shameful attack on Jefferson, a Founding Father and intellectual leading light of the republic, as well as author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. president, and Virginia governor, comes weeks after racial arsonist Al Sharpton demanded the federal government shut down the Jefferson Memorial in the nation’s capital because the long-dead president owned slaves.
“When you look at the fact that public monuments are supported by public funds you’re asking me to subsidize the insult of my family,” Sharpton said.
“I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who has had that kind of background,” Sharpton said. “You have private museums, you have other things that you may want to do there.”
Jefferson “had slaves and children with his slaves,” he continued. “And it does matter.”
Actually, not so much. Jefferson’s political enemies began circulating the story that he fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. Jefferson, or any of two dozen of his male relatives, may have fathered the children of Hemings, according to DNA testing.
Besides, the fact that someone in the past owned slaves when it was lawful and socially acceptable doesn’t necessarily invalidate the person’s accomplishments. Slavery, which everyone today – except for parts of the Muslim world and perhaps a handful of spots elsewhere – acknowledges is a horrible, inhumane institution, used to be a well-accepted fact of life essentially everywhere in the world.
This may not excuse what we now consider to be bad behavior from the past but it does place it in its proper context. Jefferson, whether he turned a single slave he owned into a concubine, helped to lay the foundation for its eventual abolition in the United States. Lamenting the scourge of slavery, Jefferson famously wrote, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just[.]”
Meanwhile, AlterNet contributor Jefferson Morley, who, as an America-hating leftist should consider changing his first name, lectured Tucker Carlson on the national anthem’s supposedly racist origins.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” became the U.S. national anthem in 1931 by way of a congressional resolution signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. Its lyrics come from Francis Scott Key’s poem which was grafted on to a drinking song in 1814.
“We should know the real history of the song because it’s so central” to the controversies of today, Morley said. Because some admirers of the Confederacy favored making the song the U.S. national anthem, it is therefore tainted, he said, and by Morley’s logic, so is the country.
I want people to know the real history of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Why is it our national anthem? And the reason it’s our national anthem is because a group of people who I would describe as neo-Confederates campaigned throughout the 1920s to get the “Star-Spangled Banner” designated as the national anthem, and when that happened they celebrated by marching in a parade in Baltimore in June 1931 behind two flags: the Confederate flag and the “Star-Spangled Banner.” So the people who wanted to make the “Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem considered it a victory for the Confederate cause.
It is important for people to know this because “this kind of racism is baked into our public symbols,” said Morley, who described Colin Kaepernick as a “hero” in the interview.
The proper response to this flaming ball of hateful, seditious nonsense from Morley is, So what?
There is nothing even remotely related to race in “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key wrote the words to his poem turned lyrics aboard a ship during the Battle of Baltimore, an American victory, in the War of 1812, long before the Civil War broke out in 1861. He is said to have composed it after seeing a large American flag flying triumphantly over Fort McHenry while it was under bombardment by the British Navy.
In other words, Key was moved by patriotism, which is obviously what the national anthem is all about.
But according to Morley, none of this real history is important. He prefers to focus on the marginal, in this case, his claim that a few yahoos lobbied for the song. This “tinges our notions of public memory,” he waxed idiotic.
Morley and his allies at UVA and in Antifa will say anything to get Americans to hate their country.
Black lives matter, except in Chicago apparenlty.
Shelia Lee’s nor Eleanor Norton, nor maxine waters life matters
I want to see these maggots go to the Washington mall and “target” Jefferson.
I left this comment at FPM:
We have raised a generation of historical numbskulls.
White Christians did not invent slavery, they inherited the institution that existed from the dawn of mankind.
However, and most importantly, it was white Christians who first abolished slavery, and then stamped it out across most of the world, the exceptions being in a few Islamic nations today. Here is a front-page from my new novel, in the book the text is centered, but no matter.
Oh Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives
to whom thou hast paid their dowries; and those
slaves whom thy right hand possess out of the
prisoners whom Allah has assigned to thee.
Quran 33:50
So enormous, so dreadful, so irredeemable did the
(slave) trade’s wickedness appear that my own
mind was completely made up for abolition.
William Wilberforce
All married women are forbidden unto thee save
those captives whom thy right hand possess.
This is a decree of Allah for thee.
Quran 4:24
You may choose to look the other way, but you
can never say again that you did not know.
William Wilberforce
Slavery is part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad,
and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam.
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan
Saudi religious leader
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Today, now many American college students would even recognize the name William Wilberforce, or what he did?
(My new counter-jihad and anti-slavery novel, The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun, has gained over 200 Amazon reviews in its first two months, with an average rating of 4.9 stars.)
How ironic. They want to expunge one of the founders of progressivism - the basis for their beliefs.
These idiots need to look no further than Chicago at their plantation master Rahm “never Let a Crisis Go to Waste “Emanuel. Ten of his city slaves were murdered by their own peeps. Is it not racist to “contain” the ghetto in the South Side as long as it stays out of “white” areas? It is disgusting how these race hustlers and media whores minimize the carnage and destruction. Toppling statues and vandalism is the act of children and lovingly approved by Obama and Soros.
It’s well past time that when someone says they are offended that we offend them MORE. Screw them, blue them and tattoo them.
“THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER”
(as you’ve never heard it before)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaxGNQE5ZLA
It's possible, the Lincoln Memorial was defaced with spray paint two weeks ago
Back during the Clinton sex scandals, the Democrats threw Thomas Jefferson down the stairs with the extremely dubious Sally Hemings nonsense, as part of their “Everybody Does It” campaign. At the time, everybody knew that it was unprovable nonsense, but the prevailing attitude was to “let the baby have his bottle”. Nobody cared because it was irrelevant and very probably false.
Twenty years later, and yesterday’s unprovable falsehood has become today’s established historical fact. We should have fought this harder back then, because now we are bucking the prevailing consensus.
Ten years from now, the only thing people will remember about Thomas Jefferson is that he owned slaves and fathered children with Sally Hemings. All else will be forgotten.
This is why the Left must be vigorously opposed at every opportunity, in all matters, great and small. They mean to destroy our country, and the only rational response is to always answer with “not one more step”.
The same could be said of every University President who permits a "Black Students Association" on his/her campus.
ML/NJ
What is their goal? To turn civilization into an African dump. Anyone that has accomplished anything of lasting value is to be destroyed. The inferior ferals can then feel better about their insignificant black lives.
Not sure where this all started, but it was shifted into high gear starting with Nazi Haley’s removal of the Confederate Battle Flag.
I remember the media fawning all over her and she looked like a teenager who just won class president in school. What a mindless tool of the left!
And what we have now is the inevitable result.
The only worthwhile noise they can make at this point is a death rattle.
Why don’t they go to the 150 countries around the world that still allows slavery?
The whole purpose is to expunge all white people from history, regardless if they helped the progressive cause or not.
I remember one time, a New Black Panther was being stridently anti-white on Hannity and Colmes, and Alan Colmes took issue with “Quantelle X”, who said, “All white people are snakes.”
Alan challenged him: “Even me? Guys like me that are on your side?”
Quantelle X responded: “Yes. Even you. You are a snake too. But remember, not all snakes are poisonous.”
White is the New N*gger.
The United States now has a new controlling authority — BLM.
Thin skinned left wingers having a tantrum - because they want more attention.
Snotty brats are getting old...
It’s not about statues. It’s a profound hatred for this country, and a longstanding practice of blaming non-White failure on Whitey. After they tear down every statue, having been given detailed instructions by the new york times, they will move to the Constitution and the very foundation of this country.
The goal is to destroy it, and to build up a marxist paradise in its place, in which all Whites will be subjugated to non-Whites. They are well on the way.
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