The history of the
"South" the American War of Independence, the subsequent patches of
violence in different parts of the country were based largely on
different interpretations of race and equality. Today
in our need to cleanse the past of widely held beliefs based on race,
slavery and the "owning" of people with a dark skin brought over from
Africa to work in the cotton fields, we become fraught with guilt or
extremely volatile in its defence. The past haunts
the Americans of a certain political persuasion as it haunts certain
people in Britain regarding Empire, in France regarding their African
territories, in Germany for a range of historical acts. The Russians
have their USSR, the Chinese have their Mao period,
the Australians have their missing children and the ongoing Aboriginal
issue. No country is without a past but the past represents a time when
views held then now run counter to views held today. It's a hard call to
blanket people with distance for holding
views that were common around them at the time. People then as today
were influenced by the media and the politicians. South Africa's
Apartheid was fuelled by the "them and us" scenario promulgated by the
Nationalist party and aided by the ANC in Dar Es Salaam
the centre of the Russian effort to destabilise the European rule in
Africa. In its simplest form the ANC were communist and wished to take
over the country. The Whites were defending their right to stay in the country. People were brainwashed into taking
sides.
The statue of Robert E Lee represented the battle between the plantation owners in the South and the Business of Capitalism as represented in Washington.
Robert E Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, George Washington were all generals fighting in the
civil war. Each had a cause represented by their 'up bringing' and for
that very reason we should be very careful in apportioning
blame. The uprooting of statues of people who represented a view of politics and society at a particular time is fraught with predudice.
What was
remarkable about the Trump press conference was the visceral hatred the
press now have for the President. As much as he reasoned that both sides
were intent on violence and therefore equally guilty,
the more the press became almost incoherent with rage that he should dane to evaluate the White Nationalists with the Black Nationalists.
We see it in this
country when the terrible events in our northern towns where Muslim men
run White girl prostitution gangs in the guise of White morality set
against their own Patriarchal religiosity and
because of the enormous fear of being called racist, the police sat on the information they had and let the situation fester for years.
Trump was up
against the Liberal Establishment which for decades now have had things
all their own way. Political Correctness has become an anathema to most level headed seekers of the "truth", what ever
that truth may be.
The truth to
much of the mob who make up the Washington Press Corp is fixated in the
column they wrote the night before the, event happened.
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