Riots, demonstrations,
uprisings, people getting hurt or killed. God Bless The USA. It's history.
Do you believe in HISTORY? Was there a Civil War? You would have to be a little
uneducated to not believe the million parts of our nation's history.
Slavery did happen. We all know that; the wickedness of our
history. So, statues were erected, hundreds of them, revealing the heroic characters of
those times when people owned slaves. Now, they want those
statues such as General Robert E. Lee, taken down and stored in some remote barn or
cellar, and hidden from public view. Those were the days of slavery; it was a
part of American Culture. These statues, most especially erected in the south, were not
praising confederate soldiers for what they did to maintain slavery, but rather, it is
all a part of HISTORY, a whole series of many happenings and events. You can't
obliterate history. You can't change the history books.....it all happened, so why can't
they leave the bloody statues alone? The next thing that you know may be if
you hang a confederate flag on your house, you'll be committing a felony.
After that, they'll want to burn history books.
Look, for instance, at President George Washington and President
Thomas Jefferson, -- they were big time slave owners for decades.
Were they criminals? Wouldn't it then be proper to blow up the Washington Monument,
level the Jefferson Memorial, or drill their faces off of Mount Rushmore?
Can you equate Hitler , the most wicked man in the history of the
world, with, say Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of
America? --- an advocate of slavery and states rights? Of course not, but
the historians who twist history, and radicals, want to tear down statues of an historic
president.There are literally thousands of pieces of art of Nazis throughout
Europe and Asia that remain in the hands of governments and private collectors but they
are prohibited from being prominently displayed.
We can go further, -- much, much further. ASSUME that
Hillary Clinton beat Ding-Dong-Donald. She's then the President of these United
States. HISTORY clearly reveals that Hillary Clinton did, in fact, own
slaves. It can only be disputed by a "Hillary Clinton interpretation" of hundreds of
facts already on record. So, what do you do with that Hillary Clinton bronze bust and paintings
of her face?
I don't really fully understand, -- why can't these hate
people just leave HISTORY alone and not try to change it to something much more ugly.
In other words, leave the frigg'n statues alone, -- same for George Washington.
EDWARD J. ROSS
Hillary, a slave owner? Give me a break.
ReplyDeleteGet your history right Ed. Most of those deplorable confederate statues were built in the 1920's when
America went through a very serious anti-black movement - The KKK was running rampant at the time.
Yes, maybe it's time we leave the stupid statues alone and concentrate on the little known executive orders this bigoted bastard President is signing.
Dear Anonymous, were you born with a name? You're asking me to "get your history right Ed." Have another Vodka with some unadulterated Kickapoo juice. I read your second paragraph a couple of times. What the hell does it have to do with what I've written? Please make an intelligent statement.
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I came from a small town named Greenwood, South Carolina. We were so poor that we ate the leftovers of what our family dog didn't eat. We moved to Florida where I am happier than I've ever been in my entire life. You caused me to remember way back to our senior's war stories. In the next town over, there is a statue of Jefferson Davis who was the president of the Confederate States. You may not know this, but he was named after President Thomas Jefferson. They never cleaned the slimy statue because it is believed that the harm slavery did could not be washed away. It is believed the statue represented a segment of our country's tarnished history and it remains a reminder of what hate, greed and prejudice can do to people. As you say, it's all history and you can't erase it. God Bless.
ReplyDeleteWHOA, Anonymous!! You made a statement perhaps without thinking or researching. Maybe you should read Hillary Clinton's book written and published in 1996, entitled "It takes a Village." Hillary Clinton admits that when she and Bill moved into the governor's mansion, when Bill was Governor of Arkansas, they used African-American prison labor for ten years. Since these black prisoners were never paid, it was widely considered modern day slavery, but, inasmuch as she was a political insider, it was kept hush-hush. While the facts are not new, their emergence has again called into question Mrs. Clinton's stated record on race relations. President Ding-Dong-Donald may be a "bigoted bastard," as you so eloquently stated, --- but with the facts laid out there, -- what is Not-So-Honest-Hillary? -- a Slavelord. Read her book (on an empty stomach).
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To Mr. Ed the talking horse.
ReplyDeletePutting prisoners to work is not modern day slavery.
Well, let's see now, -- taking these black prisoners, whose crime may have been sneaking a look at a white woman, and making them work for Hillary for a period of ten years without paying them anything, -- you say is not modern day slavery. Perhaps you should ask the numerous critics of what she admitted doing, because they, not too long ago, created that term. You need to be asked, -- if putting black prisoners to work against their will on the Clinton property, (actually the Governor's Mansion), whether they wanted to or not, for ten years, and not paying them anything is not modern day slavery, -- THEN, WHAT THE HELL IS IT? Is it a mandatory donation to the Clinton chain gang charity? You state "To Ed the talking horse." You know, Mr. Ed was pretty smart, so thank you. I say to Anonymous, your just a non-identifiable nobody. If you stated your real name, I'm sure that you wouldn't spew such foolish remarks. You sound real defensive. Is it your goal to put together a full sentence that sounds just a wee bit intelligent and on point? Don't be bashful; tell everybody what you have to say about Confederate statues, and don't sign it Anonymous....a dumb statement and you could sign it "DOPE." EDWARD J. ROSS
ReplyDeleteno one complained about statues when Obama was in office... they're just pissed that they lost.
DeleteHello, Bob Rivera. Your post got to me; you can take it two different ways....maybe if I inject the Rivera humor....?? Anyway, in the Sun Sentinel today, a Reverend made the statement that if you want to get rid of the Confederate statues, that's no problem, but leave the horses. Now, that's wisdom. ED ROSS
DeleteRight on. Mr. Ed. Right on.
ReplyDeleteHave you never traveled in the south on lesser roads and seen men working on the side of the road and wearing chains? I have. They are called chain gangs. At least the prisoners are working and helping to pay for their keep, less tax dollars to keep the prisons going and they are not going nuts sitting in their cells.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Anonymous, I just can't fathom your rather nonsensical statements. So, Bye-Bye. Oh yeah, check in with your psychotherapist. EDWARD J. ROSS
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