AlwaysWrite
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: A Facebook friend just posted this, and I agree with it enough to want to share it. I don't believe he's ever been a writer or journalist, and I have no idea whether it's an original piece or one he picked up from another source. At any rate, I'm relaying it exactly as sent, with no editing on my part.]
I've tried to find the best words to express myself, and not offend anyone. I love all my friends and family, which are made up of several different races, religions, nationalities, and sexual preferences. I judge no one. Here it goes:
2 months ago people were burning American flags because they represent oppression. This month it's rebel flags and monuments. The protesters want the names of streets changes if they're named after confederate generals. What's next? Do we hunt down the descendants of those soldiers, and destroy them? How about changing towns or cities named after religious people, like St. Augustine or St. Petersburg? Hatred doesn't live in inanimate objects, it's in the people that seek to destroy or deface them. These items have been here for years, and never bothered anyone. They represent history, good or bad. The people on those monuments fought for their civil rights, even as misguided as they were, it was their civil right to so.
Please understand, slavery was wrong and awful, and no person should have ever been owned by another.
We're bordering on another civil type war, because of all the hatred amongst ourselves. The klan and neo-nazis represents a small group off ass-hats stuck in the past. We're falling into a pool of hatred, and these people are standing on the side watching us fight each other. We're doing exactly what they want, we are beginning to divide as a nation, and the ass-hats will be the only winners.
STOP THE HATRED!!
I've tried to find the best words to express myself, and not offend anyone. I love all my friends and family, which are made up of several different races, religions, nationalities, and sexual preferences. I judge no one. Here it goes:
2 months ago people were burning American flags because they represent oppression. This month it's rebel flags and monuments. The protesters want the names of streets changes if they're named after confederate generals. What's next? Do we hunt down the descendants of those soldiers, and destroy them? How about changing towns or cities named after religious people, like St. Augustine or St. Petersburg? Hatred doesn't live in inanimate objects, it's in the people that seek to destroy or deface them. These items have been here for years, and never bothered anyone. They represent history, good or bad. The people on those monuments fought for their civil rights, even as misguided as they were, it was their civil right to so.
Please understand, slavery was wrong and awful, and no person should have ever been owned by another.
We're bordering on another civil type war, because of all the hatred amongst ourselves. The klan and neo-nazis represents a small group off ass-hats stuck in the past. We're falling into a pool of hatred, and these people are standing on the side watching us fight each other. We're doing exactly what they want, we are beginning to divide as a nation, and the ass-hats will be the only winners.
STOP THE HATRED!!