Well thought out post. Kudos.

Slavery existed in the New World long before Europeans arrived. Native Americans conquered neighboring tribes and made them their slaves.

Looks like we're going to have to tear down any statues of them as well. :icon_wink:

I agree with that. Staying dry was easy when Bobby sang the blues.

I believe that if I had the opportunity to attend one day of "liberal arts" classes in any major university in this country, I would be flabbergasted at what the radical, far left wing professors are teaching our children. Academia at the high school and college levels in this country have been taken over and dominated by a left wing ideology that doesn't want to change this country; it wants a revolution. And it's in position to make it happen, not caring a whit about the constitution. And one of the most effective means they have to effect their revolution is in the compliant media, where certain voices and opinions are simply not tolerated (see New York Times, op ed by Sen. Tom Cotton).

Politics politics The world turns

Next the future Native American rioters will tear down MLK statues and rename the streets again. They will demand to be paid for their stolen land from both white and black americans.

How about we all riot, loot, burn and protest against political correctness?

When I was in Germany in 1977 at a bazaar at an Army Base, I was shocked
to see framed pictures of Hitler being sold. I asked my sister, her husband was in the military, and she told me that people buy them ‘lest we forget’. Don’t know if or where they hung them. I was shocked.

I would not consider them as TRAITORS. They were products of their environment. They thought they were right. I am agnostic toward the question of their being traitors or patriots/heroes. They were products of their time and birthplace. ALL humans are (in the past or today). The philosophy----child is father to the man----applies here, I believe.

For me, next is Happy Hour.
The entire world is going insane. I give up!

What’s next?? Slave owner George Washington will become a pariah. Washington DC will be renamed “Justicetown” and the mall will become BLM Mall. The White House will be repainted in a blend of rainbow colors, brown and black with white window trim. Every town will have a George Floyd Boulevard that intersects with MLK Boulevard. The privileged in thIs new awakened society will be stripped of their ill gotten gains. A new political party, the Boko Hogan will supersede the Conservative Democratic Party. As Obama declared, “new America will be brown” sic.

I guess they should be burning all the dollar bills that are offensive.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”



“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”



“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”



“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.”



“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”



--1984 (George Orwell)

Personally I do not understand why the removal of statues, etc., is happening. It is our history and it makes me angry that this is happening.

Former teacher here....in the state I taught in, students ARE taught American History (required in junior year), required to pass a Constitution test twice (In order to graduate) before High school graduation (8th grade and 11th grade). Information is not shoved down their throats. They have books to read, papers to write, debates and discussions. The problem with history is ....there is not enough time in any one year of curriculum to teach EVERYTHING. And, every day/week/month/year, etc....more information is ‘added’ to history! Plus, there is no national framework with what is to be taught in each grade. It’s a state by state curriculum.

Wow...are you a teacher? Did you attend college? Not ALL teachers/college professors are as you describe. Too broad a statement.