Johnny Reb will show up by the thousands!
I don’t understand why more Southern men are not out protesting their symbols being torn down. Why is this being left to insane neo-nazis, many from outside of the South to protest this? Shouldn’t the millions of Southern conservatives be able to muster thousands of respectable citizens in Southern States to protest removing these monuments? Will they not get off their ass or does no one care or what? College football and other leisure pursuits are certainly not being neglected by this demographic, so it’s certainly not a matter of time or money.
Failure to stop the drive against Confederate symbols will inevitably lead to serious campaigns to remove Washington’s and Jefferson’s names, and then on from there to Lincoln for being racist, etc. There has got to be a more serious effort by conservatives to get active on this front now before the situation gets worse.
Why are folks not up in arms over statues? Religion? There are far more egregious wrongs that deserve attention than the removal of man made statues. If men aren’t out protesting the murder of their offspring, why would they care about destruction of marble or stone likenesses of long dead defenders of slavery?
The sad thing is that what happened yesterday is symbolic of what happens when people begin to feel that no justice exists for them through the government or legal system, so the only thing left is to take the law into their own hands. When the very symbols of history, good or bad, begin to disappear, it is the same as erasing someone’s genealogy, making their culture a throw-a-way, dehumanizing them and their ancestors and favoring those who even might be lying about what truly happened throughout history in order to destroy and replace any good or evil, therein, that we might learn from, and basing what follows on lies and false history. This is dangerous and many people feel upset about it but keep their mouths shut for fear of retribution from big government and institutions. The common people in the US voted for Donald Trump because they sensed that high crimes and misdemeanors were not being prosecuted and that he was the last chance to turn back dictatorship in America. I fear that the hatred we saw yesterday is nothing compared to what people are feeling and keeping their mouths shut, because it seems, judging from the hateful media and the unwillingness of the Congress to stand up, that going to the polls was a futile act. Is dictatorship already in place through a deep state? That is the question on the minds of those who stay quiet, as well as those who were willing to commit the crime of hurting others yesterday. God help us.
Johnny Reb will show up by the thousands!