In the wake of George Floyd's death, protests erupted against the mistreatment of blacks at the hands of police. This protest quickly went nation-wide and transformed into riots and looting. Then there was the push to tear down statues. These pro-slavery statues had to go if we were to really demonstrate that black lives mattered. Yes, they have a point. But then Thomas Jefferson had to come down because he was a slave owner. That becomes a bit murkier. Then it was George Washington's turn because he too was a slave owner. When Ulysses Grant, the man who forced General Lee to surrender and end the Civil War, gets torn down, it's not about black lives anymore. It has since moved on to the removal of Theodore Roosevelt, the toppling of Father Junipero Serra, and even calls to remove an Abraham Lincoln statue that was funded by freed slaves. There has even been a call to tear down Jesus because he is depicted as European. The Black Lives Matter movement has been usurped by Antifa and twisted it into an anti-American movement.
Who else tries to erase the past by demolishing monuments and statues? ISIS did that. The Taliban used explosives to get rid of a 2,500 year old statue of Buddha. Russia demolished thousands of churches to make way for the new religion of communism. Government-run schools in the United States have already stopped teaching American history as anything other than a crime against humanity. It is time to get rid of monuments to American history. A clean slate will make it much easier to setup a new way of doing things. Something more to the tastes of Antifa.
A hundred years ago, virtually every living person was racist, sexist, homophobic, and classist and it gets worse the further back you go. It has been a very different world through the ages. We've come a long way. If every person who ever lived must meet today's moral standards, there will be no historical figures to celebrate. How many of us living today will meet the standards of 2120?
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