There is a lot of our history that is nothing to be proud of. Every family has their ups and downs, every Nation as well. Slavery and all the problems it caused are one black eye, Jim Crow is another. We have had our great moments and our great failings, and it is often said that good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgement.
Our current President has had his failings, The same was true of U.S. Grant, True of Lincoln, and True of George Washington and the Continental Army.
One thing we saw with President Trump during his campaign, he owned his down side. No attempt to hide it, excuse it, or marginalize it, he was straight to the point and owned every bit of it. That made it all the harder to hold things on him.
After all the crap in Charlotte this past weekend and the ripples of the aftermath, I got to thinking. Maryland removed statues in the middle of the night. Many statues were vandalized, and in Dallas there was a call to rename a freeway named to honor a democrat mayor and KKK Member.
The left is working furiously to rebrand themselves away from their roots.
Time to make them own it. Start a KKK museum and be open honest and graphic. Detail the history of the organization, from it's early roots to it's heyday through its decline to near obscurity along wiht the occasional ripples of resurgence.
Provide honest and extensive histories of the men who were known members, especially the leaders as well as the fringe crew who were owned by them and did their dirty work in the halls of Congress.
We have a black History month, we should also allocate time to teaching about the KKK. No white wash, no varnishing the truth. Put it all out there like it was a republican running for President.
Making the truth inescapable makes it harder to rewrite history. Revisionist history is creating problems today. The revisionism by democrats in the last century has led to many misconceptions today.
What is true? What is fiction? Some things I believe about the Confederate Generals might be as wrong as 2+2=10 or it might be that I am correct and others are wrong. We need to keep that truth up front as much as possible today. We also need to remember that there are two sides to every story and that even the best of men have their failings.
Keeping the truth intact means there is less chance we have to deal with the same problems a second time. That is true of Nazi Germany, it is true of Pol Pot, and it is true of the KKK. Lets not bury our past or forget it.
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Jeremy, you need to put a 'share' link at the end of your posts. This is a good read and I would like to send it to my facebook page. Can you talk to you webmaster about this please?
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