Shackles of Our Own Devise: Confederate Monuments, Rebel Flags
Can you name any nation, besides ours,
ANY NATION in history
…ANY…
that has continually coddled the memory of a 150 year-old
Failed
Illegal
Immoral Rebellion Against Itself ?
Can you name ANY nation that is told
continually
that it must
honor and revere
let alone tolerate
the symbols of a disgraced rebellion 150 years after it was justly defeated?
YOU CANNOT.
NO ONE CAN.
THE UNITED STATES STANDS ISOLATED, IN DISGRACEFUL SHACKLES OF ITS OWN DEVISE, ALONE IN BELIEVING IT MUST HONOR THE RAGGED FLAGS AND LIFELESS STONE STATUES OF EVIL REBELLION THAT
SO SELFISHLY
SO NEEDLESSLY
KILLED MORE AMERICANS THAN ANY OTHER WAR.
DO YOU KNOW WHY WE CODDLE THESE SYMBOLS AND THE PEOPLE WHO,
EVEN NOW,
PRIZE,
INSIST
ON A NATIONAL IMPRIMATUR, OUR COLLECTIVE ADORATION?
I KNOW WHY. SO DO YOU.
07/03/2019 @ 9:23 am
You really cannot name another nation engaging in this kind of disgraceful spectacle. We must become better than this.
07/03/2019 @ 9:51 am
We took massive steps to do better than this, courtesy of Nikki Haley. What she accomplished in less than a week was nothing short of a miracle. As to why we haven’t finished the job, because the guys who love that flag are Trump’s core. While he’s in the White House, progress freezes and in fact reverses. And, at this point, whatever ambiguity there was about the Confederate flag and those who fly it is gone now. It used to be part racial statement, part regional statement. Now it’s pretty much strictly a racial statement. Maui Surfer is right about this, that Trump is in essence a Northern Confederate. You’ll see Confederate flags on occasion in rural parts of the North.
07/03/2019 @ 9:58 am
There’s a very old saying in my home state: Philadelphia in the East, Pittsburgh in the West, and Alabama in the middle; Alabama sports tens of thousands of those traitor-flags.
07/03/2019 @ 7:07 pm
Nope. I can not and damn sure WILL not give Nikki Haley credit for a damn thing.
A short nine months before Haley came out for taking down the confederate flag she opposed taking it down. Her actions were pure Republican spin merchant propaganda to position her as a rising Republican star, so Republicans could garner votes from other than white, old men.
Pure political grand standing earns exactly zero credit from me!
07/03/2019 @ 4:04 pm
Amen!