Re: Monumental Mistake

Well done, Whit. And although you make cogent points, I'm a little more straightforward about this whole affair.

Whoever owns these statues, whether it's the state, local governments, local communities, the Feds or whoever, I want a democratic process of public discussion in which all sides are heard from. Then whatever a majority of the people decide, I want a proper law or ordinance passed by politicians who have voted and gone on the record. At that point, I for one will be satisfied, whatever action is taken, whether to leave them standing or tear them down.

But if we've got to do something about vestiges of slavery immediately, then I would be all in favor today of dismantling that greatest vestige of slavery in the world today - the Democrat Party. Regarding slavery, the Democrat Party is about as vestige-ridden as they come. It was the Democrat Party that was the political party of slavery, supporting it,  promoting it, and trying to expand it before the war. It was the political party that advocated for secession and war. It was the political party that refused to accept the results of the war. And it was the political party that invented and enforced Jim Crow segregation laws, and created its own paramilitary wing, the Ku Klux Klan, in order to intimidate both blacks and whites in the South to maintain a one party political hammerlock on the region for more than a hundred years.

As Mark Steyn has said, the Democrat Party is the one segregationist and white supremacist organization that has survived into the modern world. You go to South Africa, you go to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, and the formerly powerful white segregation parties have long since disappeared.

But the Democrat Party has survived and they've done so by telling lies about their sordid history and their political opponents and engaging in demagoguery to provoke fear among blacks.

This is a vestige of slavery that we could all do without.