Statues

American Communists want to replace all the statues that have been erected over the generations with their favorite Communist and Civil Rights heroes. Many of these statues were erected over 100 years ago by community groupies who wanted raise money to sing the praises of a politician or war hero. This was long before the Left’s strategic obsession with race. They got government to allow these statues to be placed on public property. Statue placement has also been rampant in other countries for thousands of years. Pharos, Caesars and Saddam Hussein built statues of themselves and sometimes these statues came down based on whoever was in charge at the time.

 

We knew this was coming when Democrats wanted to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. I would object to this bit of revisionism, because Andrew Jackson had saved the US by winning the War of 1812 and Harriet Tubman didn’t. The strategy of the Left is to use force and all means necessary to advance their agenda to transform the US into a “Socialist Republic”. Liberals are never subtle and are always predictable.

 

I am not a fan of erecting statues. I would rather see government fix potholes and stop scamming the voters. I am a fan of accurate history and believe we can avoid making the same mistakes if we study history and think about the lessons history teaches. I am consequently not a fan of revisionist history, propagandizing or erasing history.

 

This current attempt by the Left to remove statues is their latest attempt to delete US history. The Left will want to replace these with statues of Communists like Mao Zedong and black racists like Nelson Mandala, because everything is always about race and socialism,

 

I would not change the $20 bill or remove any of Andrew Jackson’s statues. His role in winning the War of 1812 was a big deal.  I don’t care that he owned slaves. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Slave labor was part of the agricultural economy. Their family wealth was tied into the value of their slaves. These same founders believed “all men are created equal” and wrote that in the founding documents. The US was built on property rights and free market economics. I think they knew that mechanization would eventually make slavery unnecessary. The steam engine had already been deployed.

 

The real lessons of the Civil War of 1961 had to do with commerce, political miscalculation and hubris, not morality. When commerce and morality conflict, commerce always wins out in the end. This was not a glorious or noble war and like most wars it was an avoidable mistake.

 

I do believe that if the Southern slave owners knew how the Civil War would end, they would have flipped their slaves into indentured servant contracts to wind down and sunset these assets and offered them jobs as sharecroppers. They placed the wrong bet and lost everything as they should. The real losers were the families of those who lost their lives in the battles that were fought in this tragic, unnecessary war.

 

The current descendants of these slaves understand the pain their slave ancestors endured and are impressed with their grit and strength.  A hand full of Communist race-baiting scammers demanding retribution payments need to admit that they don’t have a case.

 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader