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No One Asked Me But… (October 28, 2020)

By DR. LARRY MOSES

No one asked me but… If you want to understand why the Democrats are so interested in the removal of statues, street names, the rebel flag, and reference to many individuals in American history, you might want to read a little history. The vast majority of those statutes and references being cancelled are Democrat leaders. The major charge against those statues, flags, and persons is that they are, or represent, slaveholders and racists. I cannot disagree with that assessment; however, I believe the real reason for the demand of their removal is they are an embarrassment to the Democrat Party who claims to be the champion of all minority rights.

One must marvel at the political astuteness of the Democrat Party in their ability to blame Republicans for the very acts committed by Democrats. It reminds me of my older brother who was able to commit the offense and blame it on me. This may be a sad state of affairs, but my friends, this is effective politics and the Republicans never seem to understand pure political effort.

I have no objection to the removal of monuments to those Confederate leaders who would have destroyed America as a nation. I know of no other nation that would celebrate those who carried out a failed rebellion. I know of no other nation that would reverence the battle flag of a group of traitors. I do, however, object to the canceling of history for it leads to an incorrect interpretation of who was responsible for the racism in America.

The first Democrat President Andrew Jackson was a slave holder. It was Andrew Jackson who forced the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma resulting in the Trail of Tears, in violation of a Supreme Court ruling that forbade the removal.

Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a Democrat. Stonewall Jackson was a slave owner and a Democrat. Nathanial Bedford Forrest was a slave owner, slave trader, slave breeder, a General in the Confederate Army, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, and a Democrat. We probably don’t need statues commemorating any of these individuals. One of the most openly racist President of the United States was Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat.

There was a move to remove Senator Patrick McCarran’s name from the Las Vegas Airport because of his racists stand in opposition to civil rights legislation as well as his openly racist statements made in the defense of segregation. Senator Patrick McCarran was a Democrat.

The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, was passed under the administration of D.D. Eisenhower, a Republican. The act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. This was aimed to stop the impediment of black voters. The longest-ever single-Senate filibuster was led by Senator Strom Thurmond, a Democrat. It was an unsuccessful filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, lasting 24 hours and 18 minutes, as he and his Democrat cohorts attempt to stop the bill.

Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, a Democrat, served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, for more than two decades. He strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Bull Connor enforced legal racial segregation and denied civil rights to black citizens during 1963’s Birmingham campaign. The actions one sees of dogs being turned loose on civil rights marchers as they are being beaten by police in the south during the 1960’s were under the control of Democrats.

Gov. Orval Faubus, a Democrat, became a national figure on Sept. 2, 1957, when he called out the Arkansas National Guard to keep nine black students from entering Little Rock’s all-white Central High School. That was three years after the Supreme Court had ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The black students were unable to enroll until President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, sent 1,000 paratroopers to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce court integration orders. Gov. Ross Barnett, a Democrat, opposed the admittance of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. It is, however, true that President Kennedy and his brother Bobby, both Democrats forced his admittance.

Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat, was a recruiter for the Klan rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Alabama Gov. George Wallace, a Democrat and one of the most outspoken segregations in American history, stated in his inaugural address on September 13, 1998: “I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.”

My point is not to beat up on Democrats but to show their political astuteness in picking an unpopular topic and attaching their history to the Republican Party. This may not be the most honest policy but it is a highly effect political effort. The current Democrat Party is trying very hard to attach the violence in the cities over racial unrest on the Republican Party. However, all of the rioting and looting has been conducted at best by left wing extremist and at worst by out and out criminals, not the radical right wing of the Republican Party.

One must keep in mind that mainstream Democrats do not condone, nor participate, in rioting and looting. These are acts of criminals, and if political, carried out by Anarchists, not Democrats. However, the Democrat leadership is not willing to condemn or even recognize these activists, who go by the name of Antifa, as an existing organization. While Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris call on President Trump to disavow the extreme right, they embrace the extreme left.

Thought of the week…Denial does not solve the problem. Denial does not make the problem go away. Denial does not give us peace of mind, which is what we are really seeking when we engage in it. Denial is a liar. It compounds the problem, because it keeps us from seeing a solution, and taking action to resolve it.
– Bill Kortenbach.

 

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