Breitbart’s Jarrett Stepman is speaking up against the destruction of Confederate monuments across America. While many are trying to erase them from history, he argues that they miss the point entirely.
America doesn’t need a whitewashing of history, it needs a renewed commitment to the leaders and inspiring people, heralded and unheralded, who made this country what it is today–and an understanding of those who may have caused it harm. New monuments and reinterpretations of the past will undoubtedly arise, but this should not necessitate the bulldozing of priceless and irreplaceable works of art.
The current efforts to fundamentally transform history are fueled by people who believe America has been rotten since day one and want nothing less than total political and cultural revolution. It would be a travesty and a foreboding sign for America’s future if there is no attempt to preserve these monuments against the push of a temporary majority or—more accurately—an incredibly vocal and insistent minority.
In the last few years alone, leftist activists have been relentless and often successful in their pursuit of dismantling this country’s past in an attempt to recreate the nation in their own image. Amongst many other examples they have attempted to remove: Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill, Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from annual Democrat Party dinners, President William McKinley’s name from Mount McKinley, and even progressive forefather Woodrow Wilson’s name from Princeton University. And perhaps most disturbing of all is the effort to dig up Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from their graves in a park in Memphis, Tennessee. Even the dead are not allowed to rest.
Support for Confederate monuments is not support for all the confederacy stood for. As many try to tie the flag to slavery, racism, and oppression, they ignore the lives lost by family, and the deep roots many have that connect them to the American south.
These activists who are trying to erase the Confederacy from existence disrespect many of these Americans, while solving absolutely nothing about our country’s past or future.
Source: Breitbart
Photo: Kristen Watson/Denton Record-Chronicle
Please Americans, don’t let this happen! It’s the Democrat party that should be taken out, not our historical monuments! They are a disgrace!
All this racist bull started and was fed by Obama and we should end it and learn from this very costly and dark mistake of electing a Black Moslem Democret (a lethal political venom) in the USA . Obama made sure that racisism ignited across the USA dividing us al as a well trained communist is doctrine to do. Companies like Boing, Intel, Microsoft , are among the few that lost billions of dollars trying to expand and create 10s of thousands of jobs and were prohibited from achieving the lifesaving move directly from the OBama / Clinton administration.
Washingtons own Bonnie & Clyde.
PCPURGERS attack what they do not understand. First, it was the Founding Fathers. Second, the American Civil War, Next will be how$#%&!@*Germany treated people. We are becoming 1984 and some other SIFI movies. Soon you will not be allowed to think anything.
I’m thinking history is about to repeat itself “states against the federal government ” the federal government does not represent the majority of Americans any longer , and if it happens we need to hang those sonofbitches who started this down hill slide of our great nation in Washington!
Bingo !!
Needs to be stopped immediately.
Democratic Party is the true party of slavery and racism.
How about the$#%&!@*collage fund and the black entertainment network? BET…
Civil war monuments and parks for the North as well as the South are a tourist attraction for many and help understand the past and should be preserved. Perhaps we can learn from the past and hope we don’t make similar mistakes.