"21st Bleeping Century"

What to do with all that tonnage of Confederate memorabilia crapped all over the South.

Well...

Actually they should leave a few around for the hell of it. 'But seriously folks. Likes I sez put the flags, and statues at battle, and grave memorial sites, and leave it at that. It acknowledges the memory, but does not glorify it. Just banning them gives all that material far more power than it really has or needs.

It's an assault many feel on their identity. Actual millions feel this way.

You can't deny history. You can only acknowledge it, and learn from it. We learned that though Southern troops did fight with great valor. (...even Obama said this.) Their cause was not worthy of them. (...he said that too.)

Yes the common Southern trooper fought for his family, and home. However his government started the war to found a nation that they very specifically stated was based on Slavery...they said it. All of the founders said it plainly, and proudly...no getting around it. There it is in print in their words. Case closed. Now lets just get the hell on with the 21st bleeping century.

'Course like me in my Blue 9th U.S. Colored Calvary tunic. ( ...above.) If they want to wear the Grey...cool. Just keep the flags, and statues where they should be...at the memorials. ...and re-enactment fields.

Btw I remember when the Klan wanted to march in Harlem. This back in the extreme daze of the late 60's 70's. 'Course all hell broke loose, and it never happen. Me I said at the time to universal condemnation that they should march. I mean this I 'had' to see.

Ideally everybody should have been friendly, and respectful to our "guests". Even though they had our blood on their hands,...human person to person as Dr. king asked us to be. Confront your enemy with patients, and kindness.

Worked in a way for that Gandhi guy.

Being the gleefully deranged peacenik that I still am. I hoped for conversations, and debates between the Kluxers, and Harlemites...all done over a great table of Bar-B-Q. That, and everybody goes home changed in their hearts having found out that we we're all just folks. 

It is such dreams as this that have saved my sanity.

An addendum to the above. I posted this on a friend's page. ...

"Bottom line"

Besides all the culture war static. White Trumpland knows they're going to be an ethnic minority soon...in fact they already are. If they could read with any comprehension they'd know that in 2009/10 more technicolor babies were born than pink ones. That is more dark skin babies have been getting born in this country for the last eight years than white ones.

Soon the majority dark children will be in middle school. You know how time goes with your kids a minute later they'll be having families of their own,...and be VOTING. So will all those showing up after them. This makes Trumpland insane in ways hard to describe. They live in blinding rage, and terror for the future. This was the root cause for the "Tea Party", and all the movements that have sprung from it. Is it any surprise that the Trump symbol in the rural heartland is the Confederate flag?

They're already a minority, and they know what 'they' did to minorities, and fear the same.

They fear vengeance. Ironically that's the last thing they should fear from us. They 'should' be scared bleep-less of the republican party which is taking away their homes hospitals, and food. We would 'never' harm them. You see we are 'not' them. They will find that people of color will be far more patient generous, and compassionate to them than they 'ever' were to us.

We will believe it or not will embrace them as our brethren fellow citizens. Below the flag as it was on the day of the "Emancipation Proclamation".

...this time we will 'all' be set free.

Amen.