And now thay have taken down the statues of Grant and Francis Scott Key because he owned slaves. Streets will be renamed, towns will be renamed. Universities will be renamed. Battlefields will be turned into parking lots and those that sacrificed their lives for what they believed in will be lost in vain. It's so easy for us to judge through what we learned yet none of us have a clue what it was like to live in that moment.

Well since you bought up Bubba Wallace

YouTube

Steve

One person on YouTube, who the racists will love, is saying that Wallace couldn't be be hated for his black skin...because he wasn't completely black?

You really think racists don't still believe in the..."one drop rule?" :oops:

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Do you have any idea, how many "good old boy fans/employees" are livid.... that NASCAR banned confederate flags this week?

Across the street at Talladega, the best selling items at vendors tents were...confederate flags.

Not to mention that cleaning crews, other team's crews, etc...have access to the garage area.

Quite frankly, it is constant attempts like these by certain folks on ANY incident of racism and where there hasn't been a single post in recognizing racism against blacks...that just proves how badly things still are and needs to be changed. :ohdear:

At least his fellow competitors and other crews...are willing to acknowledge it and support him. :ho:

What you say holds absolutely no water with me.
Call me anything you want.
I'm good.
Steve

On THAT...I have no doubt. ;)

I don't know Bubba Wallace and I feel sorry that he found a noose. I hope someone who was not at all racist didn't put it there to further make a point. I am not black, I can't know how it is to live with the terrible injustices of being treated badly because of my race. I am white and I do understand that the poster known to us as "Time for Change" has all of the feelings and warmth and good connections that we all do with the place of our birth and early life. In Ohio, in School we sang a lot of folk music like "Dixie" and never, ever connected any of it to slavery. When we paint with a broad brush, no matter what it is, we get paint on things we really didn't want to paint.

Anyone can see that some posters are way past being mad. Anyone can see that there are a lot of people who have never harmed another soul who are being chastised for something that isn't their fault. It is so wrong to group people together and think they are all flawed. Two wrongs don't make a right. You shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. I feel a reverse prejudice against all country people from city people here. Hating is wrong no matter who does it. It hurts all people.

Great link.

Education and increasing knowledge is always...a good thing. :thumbup:

Staged. The Wallace troubles are more than likely staged. BLM is a war against whites and Wallace is right there with them.

So it's been ok for 100's of years but not now because of a couple of very wrongful deaths (as a result of not obeying a police officer). I guess reparation for the third generation descendant's of slaves is next. Ancestry.com will love that.

Today I almost feel like 1968 again when I was in Vietnam when both Bobby Kennedy and MLK were killed. My closet friends (other troops) were black. You cannot imagine the hurt I felt for them being half way around the world fighting in a war that hardly anyone but Pres Johnson supported. Some just would not speak to me anymore. Some got very upset and I was afraid of what they would do (fragging). We are way past that level of feeling today. The pure hate across this Country is at a peak. I'm afraid of what may happen and if will ever end without losing (don't want to say).

There is a tour of Germany that takes you to all the sites of the Nazi's and Hitlers locations. Last year I went to Dachau and Eagles Nest. Both tell the story and have photo's of Hitler and others of the time. There are railroad sidings where the trains departed to the camps in various locations in Europe. Eagles Nest is now both histoical and a restaurant. When you stood on the sundeck the photo's showed where hitler stood and Eva Braun sat. The Fuhrerbunker now has tourist signs with photo's and diagrams. Hitlers beer hall putsch tours are always full.Germany is reclaiming their history. We had conversations with the next generation and there is a thirst for knowledge of that period among those we talked to. Statues were destroyed because of the fear that they would be used to further the Nazi movement and start a resurgence. The Germans did not remove statues, the Russians did.

As I said.

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Which I have no problem with doing here.

Put them in central location so that school children can learn...from the despicable parts of our nation's past. :ho: