Op-ed:
Statues, History, and Misplaced Anger
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio
“
I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest
anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such
Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the
Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be
pertinent.....” - President
Donald J. Trump, June 23, 2020
It's not really about the physical
statues themselves but about what the statues represent...things like
courage, bravery, heroism, and accomplishments just to name but a
few. And most of all it's about history, in this case our nations
history, and while history's visuals can unfortunately be removed
seemingly at whim, our history itself cannot be for history is part
of what composes the actual fabric of time, and time always moves
forward...there's no going back in time.
And the concept and ramifications of
time as it relates to America's history is the very thing that some
cannot nor will not accept as reality, but reality is what it is. Our
great nation has had its share of high and low moments, things we are
proud of and things that shame us...as have all other nations...but
trying to change our past in hopes of affecting a better present that
would lead into an even better future for some is but the stuff of
fairy tales and fables, for change itself is a tangible concept
relegated only to the present, and we'd all be better served if we
understood that.
How so? As statues of our past keep
being taken down... either voluntarily or through vulgar defacement and/or
destruction...all that's being removed is but a visual reminder in
stone or bronze of what was...what the statue represented is still
there and will always remain so. In fact, with each statue now being
tagged for removal... total capitulation of sorts courtesy of political
cowards too scared not to appease the malcontents...what or whom was
being honored has now actually gained in both prominence and
importance. And while the malcontents think that with each statue
removed a battle in their self-fabricated
hatred
of their own people's history has been won, the reality is
that their history does forever remains unchanged.
And not only does that history
remain...a history of slavery they say shames both America and the
black race race itself...in no way does trying to change that history
ever equate to equality for equality is not one-sided nor has it ever
been. If one wants to be treated, respected, and honored on par with
another as their equal, one must treat the other in the way they
themselves wish to be treated. Kind of Biblical in nature now isn't
it, for equality cannot be mandated by law, it truly must be
earned...it cannot be said more directly and to the point than that.
And for those malcontents who descended from slaves... malcontents
comprising but a small, albeit a very vocal portion of today's black
American population... the thing they are most angry and shamed
by...slavery...is the very thing they should be most proud of for
their ancestors proudly rose above their bondage and went on with
their lives only to see some of their offspring now putting them back
into chains.
How so? Simply by the malcontents
desperately trying to draw parallels to what's happening in today's America to
what slavery was like 150+ years ago...as in they're trying to make what
was once considered a worldwide accepted
“societal institution” into
but a modern day battleground version for what amounts to their garnering
personal gain at the expense of innocent others. And sadly, it's this very
thought process coupled with their truly hateful acts of
revenge...revenge taken not only to weaken America from within but to
defame the very freedoms America affords us all...is what is helping
to put their ancestors back in chains. Chains, of course not of the
physical kind but chains nevertheless, no matter that their ancestors
who lived as slaves never did call for revenge nor did they seek
atonement or reparations from their taskmasters once becoming
“free
men.”
It's only today's
malcontents who never experienced or lived through the hardships of
slavery who are trying to make white folks...white folks who never
owned slaves...not only atone for sins not of their doing but
actually wanting “whitey” to pay them monies truly not
owed to them. Bribery in the guise of reparations given so that the
malcontents will hopefully tone down their ever
so “acting badly.”
But guess what...it doesn't work that
way...except for the white bleeding heart liberal politicians that is.
And really, how does one put a price tag on hardships someone today
never experienced in life? Is this tearing down of statues a misguided form of
atonement that must now be accepted by white folks...or else? I think not
for if we do continue to allow what is basically being dictated to us as being
acceptable behavior that is anything but, then truly where does the tearing
down of our nation's visual history end...where and when is the line
in the sand drawn and then crossed? And what are the ramifications of
let alone a solution to the escalating havoc now taking over key
American cities? Or simply, will malcontents be left to do what they
do until they and their misplaced cause naturally burns itself out?
These are all questions that need to be
answered and thankfully, all said questions can be answered with but
one response...as in the seemingly mindless folks coupled with their
ensuing rage that's masquerading as a protest movement must be
stopped by any means possible for not to do so sees us betraying not
only all our country's past but the patriots whose blood was shed in
the name of freedom.
Simply, we modern day patriots do outnumber the
malcontents, but it's our political leaders who are not only tying
our hands behind our backs...as did a former president who not only
tied our military's hands behind their backs so as not to hurt the
sensibilities of the enemy but also to afford the enemy life instead
of what should have rightfully been death...but today we also see the
media painting law enforcement as the enemy while looters, arsonists,
and anarchist groups...as in the likes of Antifa and Black Lives
Matter (BLM)...are being both painted and heralded as heroes.
Sad isn't it...very sad indeed...which makes
me wonder just where are America's militia groups...groups formed to
aid our country in times of need...and if our country...if our
police...ever needed aid it's now as more and more of our cities
become the victim of predominately black mayhem. And if the
malcontents can't have the cities...even with the (faux) racial
injustice plea being the log they throw onto the pyre of racial
hate...statues of American heroes, of battles and wars won and
lost..are now the victims of sorts being used to channel the
malcontents violent behavior...behavior no longer buried beneath the
surface but on full display for all to see.
But in the malcontents minds the now
ongoing fight and their destroying of statues remains not really
about the statues per se, but is about what they alone deem can be
included in America's history and what cannot. And now it seems that
those holding America hostage...those who lack both the much needed logistics of common sense as well as an understanding of the rule of
law...might have just crossed a line that even they cannot retreat from
what with Jesus Christ himself now becoming both a victim and a
target of the malcontents hate and contempt.
“Your religion is your whiteness
with a Christian patina,” or so said Shaun King, a BLM activist
who pretends to be black or is he a light-skinned black trying to
pass himself off as a white do-gooder...that's still open to question. However, it's not the color of his skin that matters, it's what comes out
of his mouth that does. Adding that, “White Americans who
bought, sold, traded, raped, and worked Africans to death, for
hundreds of years in this country, simply could not have THIS man at
the center of their faith,” was a misguided attempt to show
that artists lightening the skin of the Son of God is central to the
Christian faith and thus that Christianity itself is racist in
nature. But what King and his misguided ilk forget is that any and
all portrayals of Jesus, whether they be statues of stone, paintings
in oil, or stained glass images adorning church facades, are just one
person's visualizations of a man that no one alive today has ever
seen...in fact no one has actually seen Jesus the man since around 30
AD...give or take a few years.
But facts seem not to matter to Shaun
King for he is now demanding that
“all the statues of the white
European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form
of white supremacy. Always have been,” and
are a representation of what is “racist American
history,” No Mr. King, what is a true form of supremacy, I
believe, is the black malcontents and the overly zealous militant sorts
demanding that American history and religious history be either
changed and/or erased and replaced with a black utopia where blacks
are the taskmasters and white people are their slaves.
This mindset of hate...this what is now
a race-based war...has to end for like I said in the beginning,
history itself cannot be changed...it is what it is...it will remain
as it was destined to be...and destroying the visual representations
of events and folks long past will not now or ever change what
was...it is as simple as that.
Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved
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