The betrayers of history.
That is in truth in what Virginia Democrats are doing. Why bother teaching history in schools anymore if the comments made by elected officials during this debate are what they truly believe. The Virginia War Memorials across the Commonwealth are not the real target by Virginia Progressives. Rather it is Virginia's history itself.
That is in truth in what Virginia Democrats are doing. Why bother teaching history in schools anymore if the comments made by elected officials during this debate are what they truly believe. The Virginia War Memorials across the Commonwealth are not the real target by Virginia Progressives. Rather it is Virginia's history itself.
State Senator Locke called the history and the statues "stupid". Does Locke feel that way about all statues? What if at some point the other side of aisle in the future determines statues of others are "stupid". Or that a time comes when a majority says no more "Black History Month" or no more State Holidays for any individual of historical significance. What if fifty years from now Virginia is so removed from the Civil Rights movement that its actors are treated in the same light as figures from the Revolution or Civil War periods?
What is the prediction is true and the shifting of demographics as a direct result of immigration places in power new paradigms who will not identify with any of this history in truth. Not the Revolution , Civil War or any part of it because their ancestors were not even in America.
Virginia Democrats simply are extending a culture war that in the end all Virginian -like the hallowed ground of Civil War Virginia- every Virginian will lose.
What is the prediction is true and the shifting of demographics as a direct result of immigration places in power new paradigms who will not identify with any of this history in truth. Not the Revolution , Civil War or any part of it because their ancestors were not even in America.
Virginia Democrats simply are extending a culture war that in the end all Virginian -like the hallowed ground of Civil War Virginia- every Virginian will lose.
It is ironic that the Virginia Democrats on the one hand would never support the removal of history as it pertains to the Civil Rights era or events like the Holocaust ----you see that would offend a constituency that votes Democratic 70% in America historically --- but they have little problem pushing for the removal of Virginia historical monuments they deem to be "stupid".
That becomes the new qualifier. Something deemed "stupid" by enough people can be removed.
That becomes the new qualifier. Something deemed "stupid" by enough people can be removed.
Virtually every county in Virginia has a statue honoring those Virginians who lost their lives during the Civil War. Even in Richmond, Va General A.P. Hill's monument sits atop his grave site in the Northside. Does the city plan to remove Hill's body as well?
It is clear that the true hate is real. They claim that the monuments represent "hate" and are "stupid" but the truth is the real hate is on display this week on the floor of the Virginia General Assembly. A group of officials who turned a blind eye to the racism displayed by its own leadership in 2019 wants to deflect their true betrayal to Virginians onto monuments over one hundred years old.
Sen. Locke must be looking forward to a "Monumentless Ave" in Richmond. Progressives likely will celebrate and schedule a demolition event as the Lee and Jackson monuments fall. What they fail to realize we will not be losing monuments but in truth a part of all of us. Virginia has much to be proud of. Maybe nothing greater that overcoming our Civil War past though many want to keep reliving it. Senator Locke and others benefit from reliving it over and over. It creates divisions and that is the politics that is the emodiment of their real goals.
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Sen. Locke must be looking forward to a "Monumentless Ave" in Richmond. Progressives likely will celebrate and schedule a demolition event as the Lee and Jackson monuments fall. What they fail to realize we will not be losing monuments but in truth a part of all of us. Virginia has much to be proud of. Maybe nothing greater that overcoming our Civil War past though many want to keep reliving it. Senator Locke and others benefit from reliving it over and over. It creates divisions and that is the politics that is the emodiment of their real goals.
State Senator Mamie Locke (D)
district02@senate.virginia.gov
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If progressives were TRULY concerned about "connections" to the slavery past, they would not belong to the Democrat party.
ReplyDeleteIf they truly wish to remove the last ACTUAL vestige of the slavery South, disband the Democrat party.