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He just assumed that there were also some normal people there that just didn't want to see history rewritten.

Posted by: TJNFL1 on Aug 15, 23:21 in response to slipping jimmy's post POTUS doubles down on "many sides" and is...

If the statue isn't there, if we remove the civil war from our textbooks, if we fail to recognize our past, isn't there the possibility that history simply repeats itself?

How are children supposed to understand where we were and what we have become, and why we changed our country for the better if they don't go to Bull Run, or Gettysburg, or Shiloh, or Antietam, or Vicksburg, or Chancellorsville, or Fredericksburg, or Richmond, or Washington DC?

Where does it end? Do we then remove confederate grave markers? Do we then remove the confederate skeletal remains? Do we rewrite the history books to say that the hundreds of thousands of union soldiers who lost limbs and lives, died fighting for "freedom for all" against ghosts? That they bled, and died fighting against no one?

Maybe its better to say, children, this is a statue of a person who thought that they were more important than our country as a whole and decided to leave it because they could not come to do what was best for everyone.

Maybe we could remind them that when we look to our neighbor, and treat them as we wish to be treated, we not only save our neighborhoods and our country, we save ourselves from what we could be.

Maybe instead of red and blue states, we could just have united states?

People are not special. We all breath air, drink water, and eat food to sustain ourselves. The moment we deem ourselves special, we look down upon those not like us, and become that which we say we oppose and despise. We are not elite, we are not superior, we are not supreme.

People are significant. We all have an opinion that has a right to be heard, we all have emotions and feelings that matter. We all place qualities in our lives to better ourselves and our communities, and everyone has the right to be heard, to be valued, and to contribute to the betterment of all.

"... that one day all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands..." One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

POTUS doubles down on "many sides" and is certain there were "some very fine people" marching for the Confederate statues in C'ville slipping jimmy Aug 15, 14:21

I posted below. Unbelievable. Trump revealed his true color as a Neo-Nazi sympathizer. {nm} Antibody Aug 15, 14:23

like father like son {nm} slipping jimmy Aug 15, 14:29

President said he condemns "in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. {nm} TJNFL1 Aug 15, 21:28

David Duke: "Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists" slipping jimmy Aug 15, 23:18

...on many sides". Only racists equates KKK, Neoi-Nazis and White Supremacists to the counter protesters that believe in equality. {nm} Antibody Aug 15, 23:24

What good does it do to call someone a racist? What is being accomplished? There is no communication, no change, ...{nm} TJNFL1 Aug 15, 23:55

It HAS to be said, so it can't be ignored and brushed off. It's an issue that needs to be addressed, not avoided. {nm} dubord.s Aug 16, 07:54

Ignored, brushed off, and avoided? Its been discused since the 1960's. {nm} TJNFL1 Aug 16, 10:38

Exactly - because people called him out on it, as opposed to remaining quiet and allowing it to go unchecked like you seem to imply. {nm} dubord.s Aug 16, 12:42

Publicly condemned as evil since what, around 1925? {nm} TJNFL1 Aug 17, 02:39

Doesn't mean its gone away. {nm} DTravel Aug 16, 15:57