By Dr. Patrick Slattery — Due to network
problems, I never got a chance to share some of my views on the attack
on Confederate symbolism on our daily radio show, so let me take this
opportunity to do so now.
White people, just like every other race, were not
born yesterday. We share a long history with all the other people on
earth, and that history, human history, includes slavery. It includes
despotism. It includes conquest. But it also includes beauty and
learning and all sorts of achievements. And it is so hypocritical for
the Zio media and Zio elites to denounce whites for slavery while
ignoring the histories of all other peoples who practiced slavery, just
as it is also hypocritical to ignore the great contributions made to
civilization by Europeans while setting aside entires months to the
glorification of the contributions of other races. (Of course, Black
History Month itself is as much about denegrating whites as glorifying
blacks.)
Robert E. Lee is absolutely the one person who
most symbolizes the Confederacy. Every state in the south certainly has
dozens of schools named after him. Think of Washington Lee University in
Virginia, one of the top small colleges in the country. (It’s football
team fight song is a jazz standard, by the way.) Lee Highway stretches
from New York to California.
You and I honor the soldiers that fought in the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars, even though we understand the wars were wars
for Israel. But to the veterans who fought in these wars, they were
about preserving American freedom. The same with the Vietnam War, the
Korean War, the World Wars — all wars that I think America should not
have been involved in. Still, I would not call for tearing down
memorials to these veterans. I respect the feelings of those, or the
loved ones or descendants of those, who made the sacrifices.
Now, The Civil War was about much more than
slavery — there were huge economic, political, and constitutional issues
at stake, although slavery was intertwined with these issues. But for
the vast majority of those who fought in the war, and for their
families, they were not fighting to protect slavery or to end slavery.
So I think it is just as wrong to insist on taking down the Confederate
flag or statues of Confederate leaders as it would be to insist on
removing all the memorials to those who fought in our other wars — wars
that I don’t think should have been fought and that I don’t think were
ultimately for a good cause.
Ultimately, the Confederate flag controversy is an
attack on that segment of Americans who identify with it as part of
their heritage, and should be viewed as part of a greater attack on the
morale of European Americas by a Zio elite that wants to demoralize us
and marginalize us as it ultimately seeks to replace us.
0 comMENTS:
Post a Comment