On the eve of Juneteenth, protesters in Portland, Oregon toppled a statue of George Washington. They also covered the statue’s head with the American flag and lit it on fire. “Fuck the Police” was spray painted on the statue’s pedestal. There is no doubt that if they could, they would tear down the Washington Monument.
On June 14, they had torn down a statue of Thomas Jefferson outside his namesake high school in North Portland and pounded it with hammers.
In San Francisco protesters knocked over statues of Father Junipero Serra, Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key, and statues of Cervantes and Don Quixote were spray painted.
Friday night in Raleigh, Kaepernick’s freedom fighters pulled down two bronze soldiers on the 75-foot Confederate monument at the state Capitol, then hung the statue of a cavalryman by its neck from a streetlight.
Earlier this month, a Christopher Columbus statue in Virginia was torn down and dumped in a lake.
In the last couple of weeks our country has been going to Hell in a hand basket, all because a white cop murdered a black career criminal. The BLM mob has taken control of our streets. For the most part the vilified police are just standing by as historical statues are being defaced and torn down.
On Thursday, a judge in Richmond, Virginia extended a 10 day injunction which blocked the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. Gov. Ralph Northam, of blackface fame, had ordered the removal of the statue which was erected in 1890. Virginia’s Attorney General said that “state-sponsored displays of racism” should be removed.
What brought on the wrath against Washington and Jefferson? The were slave owners. And Columbus mistreated the indigenous people in Hispaniola.
Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and led the Confederate forces during the Civil war, but he was otherwise am honorable and decent man. Ulysses S. Grant, leader of the Union forces and later President of the U.S., was also a slave owner before the Civil War.
In 2016, well before the current insurrection, the Houston school board approved $1.24 million for the renaming of eight schools named after Confederate heroes. And now Mayor Sylvester turner is removing The Spirit of the Confederacy statue and the Dick Dowling statue, both of which are in Houston’s Hermann Park.
When in 2017 the statues of Jefferson Davis and P.G.T. Beauregard were removed in New Orleans, my very liberal nephew who lives there shrugged his shoulders and said that 99 percent of the black people in the city had no idea who the statues represented. As far as they were concerned the statues were there for the pigeons to roost and shit on.
Now the House Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi want to rename the U.S. military bases which are named after the following Confederate generals:
P. G. T. Beauregard
Henry L. Benning
Braxton Bragg
John Brown Gordon
A.P. Hill
John Bell Hood
Robert E. Lee
George Pickett
Leonidas Polk
Edmund Rucker
Except for Lee, the vast majority of blacks don’t have the foggiest idea of who they were. And most whites don’t either.
A recent poll showed that 54 percent of Democrats favor paying blacks reparations for slavery. Joe Biden is in favor of paying slavery reparations to African Americans and Native Americans.
Last week the White Obama said: “If, in fact, there are ways to get direct payments for reparations, I want to see it. But why are we waiting around for the study? We can deal with this stuff.”
The murder of George Floyd shows we are in a race war that is demonizing our police officers. Cops feel like Vietnam veterans returning to a country that hates them.
Nearly three-fourths of the D.C. police officers said in a poll that they are considering leaving the force.
Patrick Lynch, president of the union that represents the rank and file of NYPD officers says: “Over the past few weeks, we have been attacked in the streets, demonized in the media and denigrated by practically every politician in this city. Now we are facing the possibility of being arrested any time we go out to do our job.”
The destruction of statues, the renaming of schools, parks and military bases, and the demonizing of the police will not erase racism. In the end it will only perpetuate racism, further divide this once great country and leave more of us, both whites and people of color, as victims of lawbreakers.
The nation is nearing a state of complete rebellion. On the other end of the political spectrum, people are defying COVID-19 safety regulations by refusing to wear face masks and practice social distancing in order to show the government that it has no right to force them to do so.
Yes, many of us and some cops are racists. But do Americans really want the destruction of statues, the renaming of schools, parks and military bases, and the demonizing of the police? Do they favor casting George Washington and Thomas Jefferson into the trash heap of history? And do they want to erase Columbus from our history books? God help us if they do.
UPDATE 6-22-2020
Holy Shit! Now the statue of Theodore Roosevelt will be removed from the entrance of NYC’s American Museum of Natural History.
The bronze statue depicted Teddy on horseback with an American Indian and a black man standing next to the horse. It’s been at the museum entrance since 1940.
New York’s Sandinista-loving Mayor Bill de Blasio explained that “The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.”
I’ve seen this wonderful statue of Teddy several times, and it never even remotely crossed my mind that the black man and the Indian were subjugated and racially inferior. De Blasio is a Texas blivot – 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag!
America is sinking further and further into complete madness!
Bob Walsh says
If I was a D C cop I would have an application in with every federal law enforcement organization in existence.
Was the founding of the US perfect? Of course not. Is it perfect now? Of course not. However we do keep trying, we do keep trying to improve and mostly we succeed.
Our Founding Fathers were great but imperfect men who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to try to make something better.
It took a hundred years and 600,000 lives to iron out a major flaw in that original try. It took another hundred years and more legislation (pushed by Republicans and opposed by Democrats) to iron out some more massive bumps in the road.
Yet there are idiots out there who would destroy what we have achieved and what we still hope to achieve because it is not perfect. When you add to that number the committed anarchists, socialists, communists, fellow travelers and outright nut jobs there are a lot of people who would be very happy to see America crumble into the dust.
That, boys and girls, is where the divide will be this November. Do you want America to turn into downtown Seattle or the excrement covered hills of San Francisco? Make your choice but choose well. You will have to live with it.
Bill Daniels says
Howie and Bob,
Both of you are spot on. This whole thing isn’t about ‘social justice,’ or statues, it’s about Marxism. It’s about disintegrating the US. It’s about division and Balkanization. Conservatives, Repblicans, and Trump supporters need to band together and recognize this. The problem has been the right is always willing to give up just a little, because this time, that’s a workable, winning strategy.
It’s not. No more. The statues destroyed or taken down need to all be put back up. If necessary, hire armed guards to provide full time protection for them. No ‘police reform,’ nothing should be offered to the people destroying our cities. They aren’t peaceable, and they don’t have any interest in making America better, just tearing down the institutions of America, and making it a shittler place to live. Look what they did to the Boy Scouts, to the NFL, to random bakeries, etc. Leftists only know destruction, and pitting Americans against each other. It’s LEFTISTS that are stoking racial divisions. Prior to Obama, things weren’t perfect, but they were pretty reasonable, most Americans saw others as individuals, not as tribal representatives. Obama stoked racial division, and, even out of office, continues to run a shadow insurgency against America.
JC cOLLINS says
The statue of Columbus in Bell Park (4800 Montrose or thereabouts, catawompus across the street from the Italian-American Organizations of Greater Houston, which paid for it) has been removed following increasing vandalism. This does nothing to endear the protesters to me.
Manny says
“Majority of blacks” and “most whites won’t” when will the racism cease? Vast majority of Americans would not have known who the bases stood for.
Robert E. Lee swore and oath to the United States and took up arms against the United States, he was a traitor.
Guess you would have a monument of Benedict Arnold to honor.
Why not bring up the noose that was found in a NASCAR stall?
But we still have fools that support a tyrant who welcomed Russia’s help and has asked for China to help in his reelection.
Howie Katz says
Speaking of fools, Manny, you keep making yourself a primary example.
Bill Daniels says
Why not bring up the noose that was found in a NASCAR stall?
OK, I’ll bring it up. Do the words ‘false flag’ mean anything to you? Bubba the activist is the next Jussie Smollett.
Everything you Marxists touch turns to shit…..the Boy Scouts, the NFL, NASCAR, education, etc. Your whole goal is to tear down the country, divide and conquer, so you can rule over the ashes. It’s sickening what is happening to our country.
DanMan says
In a conversation with my black barber this weekend he confirmed what I knew. Juneteenth has been overtaken by the dems/meia.blm/antifa/etc.
Born and raised in Houston, he like me has known about Juneteenth pretty much his whole life. He happened to attend high school in Minneapolis though. He told me the first time the date rolled around up there not one person he knew there had ever heard of it.
Let’s have a look from 10,000ft. It’s an election year so of course dems have to ramp up the race war. Obama’s cabal is under intense legal scrutiny and the folks who are willfully ignorant have no clue as to why. Financial gravity is making its weight known with bankrupt states and municipalities and the people tied to the pensions that were never funded.
Meanwhile out here we are playing little league baseball, gearing up for football season, getting ready for 4th of July celebrations at the bay and not giving a wit about mask rules.
Wyanta Wilson says
He’ just wanted your tips we agree with people for tips most barbers and hairstylist do. I don’t know one single black man that doesn’t know about it period.
Bob Walsh says
Turns out the NASCAR NOOSE was a roll-up door pull-down cord that had been around the garage for damn near a year, maybe more.