The Confederate-monument controversy is a Dem-vs-Dem question

[Chosen Daughter]

The Confederate-monument controversy is a Dem-vs-Dem question


There is an argument that the police misbehavior in Minneapolis and the statues in Mississippi are part of the same vast edifice of white supremacy, which must be attacked on both the symbolic and the practical fronts. And underneath the vandalism and hysteria and political opportunism, there is a reasonable argument for that point of view, not that the rioters and arsonists have any great interest in reasonable argument.

Conservatives should acknowledge that reasonable argument, but we should not permit its being used as political cover for a Democratic retreat from the failure of Democratic policies in Democratic cities into the safe abstraction of “white supremacy.” There are specific, urgent, and immediate questions that demand answers in Minneapolis, and those are questions mainly for its Democratic mayor, its Democratic city council, its progressive leadership and management class, for Democratic elected officials such as Representative Ilhan Omar, and a great many other people who are very comfortable talking about the ghastly moral failures of the Confederacy a century and a half ago but rather less eager to talk about the facts on the ground in Minneapolis in the here and now.

https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2020/06/confederate-monument-controversy-dem-vs-dem-question/

[Smokin Joe]

Not really. It's US vs Dem. The history of the US fades significantly without an enemy for the Yankees to vilify, and suddenly, all white skinned people, even those whose ancestors arrived in the 1900s, are eeevil.

We can show no progress without acknowledging where we have been.

And these men took up arms to protect, as best they could, their homes, wives, children, and their property against an invading Army. I don't care who you are, that takes guts, especially in a day and age where battlefield medicine was butchery. Such fortitude deserves to be honored, even in defeat.