TEAR DOWN THAT CONFEDERATE FLAG... OR ELSE!!!
There are those, a few, who believe this is a
racist nation. They point to the fact that Americans fly the Confederate Battle
Flag. They claim we honor the racist Generals and Politicians from the Old
South. They further claim that in order to stamp out racism that we need to
bring down that Confederate Battle Flag.
The say we need to ban its use all over the nation by just about everyone. Then they claim we need to dig up every Civil War General’s remains and move them to places not often seen or visited by people. They say we should remove the monuments that have been erected in those Generals honor.
The say we need to ban its use all over the nation by just about everyone. Then they claim we need to dig up every Civil War General’s remains and move them to places not often seen or visited by people. They say we should remove the monuments that have been erected in those Generals honor.
In short, these people wish to try and bleach our
history and wipe it clean of what they don’t like. They want to rewrite the
pages so that it would appear that those they claim are responsible for slavery
are not glorified in any way and are reduced to villains like any other
historical villain.
These people, often leftist, and now even some
from the middle and the right of the political aisle, have fallen victim to this
nonsense.
This lack of true discourse on race relations,
acting totally on emotions being whipped up by a fringe few who cannot stand
that fact that we are moving away from racism, is driving this destructive
paradigm. Its as if we are in a bad zombie movie and everywhere you turn there
is another mindless, anti-history nut running around tearing down a Confederate
Battle Flag or defacing an historical monument.
These nuts are even going so far as to say that
maybe we, as a nation, should tear down the National Monuments of Presidents
Jefferson and Lincoln. Why? Because Jefferson owned slaves and Lincoln didn’t
really save slaves because he did not make them fully equal when he had the
chance to do so. Both ideologies could not be more wrong when you look into
these men and what they did over their lifetime.
But when you have folks bent on changing the
narrative to fit their own political goals and ambitions, you cannot speak to
reason. They will not hear you until they become the victim of their own hate
and ignorance. For example, many on the left were happy to jump on the
anti-Confederate Battle Flag band wagon until the history Nazi’s decided to hit
a favorite pastime. That pastime would be television. Specifically the
television program called the Dukes of Hazard. When word spread that a network
was pulling the reruns of this popular hour long program, many on the left cried
foul.
They forgot for a second that the reason the
program was being pulled was because of their own ignorance. The reality is,
when the left decided to hit the old flag and paint it as racist, they didn’t
think of all the culture that has been built up around that flag. They forgot
that they, the left, first raised that flag, first promoted that flag, first
glorified that flag, first embedded that flag in our nation’s culture and
lexicon. Then they were reminded. And they hated it. But the train of historical
hate had already left the yard and there was no way of calling it back into the
barn.
Now we see business after business and even government at all levels
demonizing this flag and what they say it represents.
The truth is, this flag does not represent slavery
and racism for most folks. But what the left has done is to successfully, and
over a very short period of time, destroy the very foundation that is the First
Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
We no longer have
the ability to openly believe as we want to believe. If we say or do or believe
something that has not been approved, we will be demonized and chased out of
Dodge. They will shout that there needs to be a law that prevents you or me from
believing what we want to believe.
Some people say that it’s the flag and the
representation of racism is their target. I say, they are lying because they
know that their target is anything and anyone who is not politically
correct.
Their target is freedom itself. Their target is
you and me and anyone who still believes in freedom and the notion of live and
let live even if you disagree with what the other person believes.
Oh, no. If you do not believe as the left would
have you believe, they will fight you, enact laws that affect you and prevent
you from being able to discuss why you believe what you believe.
This attack from the left, who built up this flag
and the institution of racism in this country is not that simple flag or even
what that flag represents. Their target is plain to see.
Their target is your freedom.
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