How should Americans react in wake of Charlottesville?
Charlottesville is a story of liberal hubris and political opportunism and the lives they cost. It is a tragedy that never had to happen.
Let me explain.
This spring Charlottesville’s ultra-liberal city council voted to remove an equestrian statue of General Robert E. Lee that’s been standing in a park in downtown Charlottesville since 1924, and to change the park’s name from Lee Park to Emancipation Park.
Charlottesville is, and has been, a liberal enclave for a long time; in twelve of the fourteen years we have lived there the Lee statue, or the Stonewall Jackson statue nearby, never raised a progressive eyebrow. But after leftwing groups like Black Lives Matter began targeting Confederate Civil War monuments for vandalism and destruction in the aftermath of Ferguson, our city council decided it could score some points with BLM types by having the statue removed—and possibly avoid a violent confrontation with those same leftwing extremist groups.
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3 comments:
@ $25 an hour for both sides to spar, it "had to happen", because everyone got a paycheck for doing it, except they won't have to pay one of them, she's dead.
The media promoted the confrontation and Democrats hired protesters the Mayor and Governor ordered a police stand down. It was a plan.
Again, BLM. And again these people are so clueless. What happened in Ferguson is a tragedy but they are too shallow to see or admit the truth. The NAACP is equally culpable in my opinion by allowing this to have escalated. Race relations have regressed to civil rights days and sadly there is no modern day Martin Luther King to quell the violence.
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