AlwaysWrite
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Demonstrators carrying “Black Lives Matter” signs should pay more attention to the fact that last year, more than 4,000 people were murdered in Chicago -- for the most part, blacks killing other blacks -- and THAT is NOT a result of white supremacy or police brutality.
The days of Jim Crow are long gone, and the nation has elected and re-elected a black man -- or at least, a half-black man -- as president. Wrath against white supremacy for massive loss of black lives, in Chicago and elsewhere, is outmoded and misdirected.
Wrath against Confederate statues and monuments is also misdirected. No matter how it's analyzed, there is no real danger or any real threat from ghosts of Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee from a century and a half ago.
The same people who want to ban such statues and monuments also claim to want society to be more tolerant and inclusive, but think about it. In Europe, Nazi concentration camps and statues of Lenin and Stalin are preserved as museums and visited by schoolchildren to teach them history, both good and bad.
Where is the wrath against far more real and present dangers, such as jihadist suicide bombers and terrorists killing far too many innocent civilians? And where is the wrath against killings by Salvadoran MS-13 gangs or Mexican drug cartels in American cities?
During the current drug epidemic, some 50,000 have died from overdoses in each recent year. Such numbers are shocking and deserve far stronger public outcries than Civil War statues.
The days of Jim Crow are long gone, and the nation has elected and re-elected a black man -- or at least, a half-black man -- as president. Wrath against white supremacy for massive loss of black lives, in Chicago and elsewhere, is outmoded and misdirected.
Wrath against Confederate statues and monuments is also misdirected. No matter how it's analyzed, there is no real danger or any real threat from ghosts of Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee from a century and a half ago.
The same people who want to ban such statues and monuments also claim to want society to be more tolerant and inclusive, but think about it. In Europe, Nazi concentration camps and statues of Lenin and Stalin are preserved as museums and visited by schoolchildren to teach them history, both good and bad.
Where is the wrath against far more real and present dangers, such as jihadist suicide bombers and terrorists killing far too many innocent civilians? And where is the wrath against killings by Salvadoran MS-13 gangs or Mexican drug cartels in American cities?
During the current drug epidemic, some 50,000 have died from overdoses in each recent year. Such numbers are shocking and deserve far stronger public outcries than Civil War statues.
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