[Railcruiser]

Did anyone else find this very disturbing?
The picture on the front page of the paper today.
Unnerving, horrifying? Or am I just overreacting?

[CWGUY]

Originally Posted by Railcruiser

Did anyone else find this very disturbing?
The picture on the front page of the paper today.
Unnerving, horrifying? Or am I just overreacting?

Very disturbing!

[JSR22]

Horrifying!

[Railcruiser]

It relieves me a little bit to know that we have not all become accustomed to watching such horrible human suffering

[graciegirl]

I think all of us older adults are feeling saddened and shocked at such hate. I find KKK and all it stands for disgusting.

[BoatRatKat]

Yes, I did. As I stared at it I got those same chills I got when I looked at pictures years ago of those people jumping out of WTC. Just awful.

[Railcruiser]

If you had looked would have seen other posts about other situations. They were all over but most got deleted because of political statement.
The exact point I was trying to make was this being on the front page of the newspaper.

[VApeople]

Originally Posted by Railcruiser

Unnerving, horrifying? Or am I just overreacting?

I think you are over-reacting.

The picture did not surprise me. When you have groups like the Nazis, Black Lives Matter, and the KKK gathering in the same area, trouble often breaks out and people get hurt. It is best to avoid situations like that.

I remember back in the 1970's, the Nazi party wanted to have a parade thru Skokie IL, home to many Holocaust survivors. Instead of there being a counter-demonstration, the Nazis held their uneventful parade and then they went home.

Last year I saw people from Black Lives Matter marching and saying they wanted "dead cops" and "pigs in a blanket, fried like bacon". Even though some of us did not agree with their ideas, they were allowed to march and then they went home. No harm done.

It is good for us to have tolerance for people who want to express their opinions, even if we do not agree with them.

[l2ridehd]

First, what happened was terrible.

But I fail to understand why we want to re-write history? As a country we fight that every chance we get. Like the leader of Iran saying the Holocaust never happened. Or Russian school books being purged of the Stalin killing of 20 million people.

Why is removing a confederate statue any different? Lee was a leader of the Confederate Army. We did have a horrible civil war. Like it or not it's our history. Neither side should want to change the recorded history of those facts. If we do we will repeat them.

Weather Lee stood for slavery or states rights shouldn't matter now. What matters is there was change. And we all need to remember that it happened and things like his statue doesn't honor him, it reminds us all what a horrific time in our history that war and the things that it stood for, and the changes that happened because of it.

Stop trying to change the past, work on making sure the future is better because of our past mistakes.