Category: Every Day Life

Can’t Melt History Away

Confederate General Robert E. Lee Statue

American Confederate General Robert E. Lee Photo courtesy of getnewsusa.com

It has been reported the city of Charlottesville in Virginia is handing over the bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to an African American museum to melt the statue into something “more representative” of the city’s new values.

I am wondering what those “new values” may be.

The city council voted to hand over the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. The center has proposed to melt the bronze statue and repurpose it for another public art project.

The “Swords Into Plowshares” project “will allow Charlottesville to contend with its racist past.”

I guess the city of Charlottesville continues to be a racist place to live? Contending with the past in the present, implies, to me, the present continues to be as bad as the past.

Andrea Douglas, the museum’s executive director was quoted as saying, “It really is about taking something that had been harmful and transforming it into something that is representative of the city’s values today.”

Of course, Ms. Douglas won’t tell you what or whose values. I will like to ask Ms. Douglas how’s history harmful? Isn’t hiding the truth more dangerous than having a history to talk about?

I would love to ask the local high school student, who in 2015 petitioned for the statue to be taken down, if he or she could tell you how many Americans died during the Civil War or if he or she knew the real reasons for the Civil War.

Judging by the sorry state of our government education system, I would bet this student wouldn’t know the answers.

This is nothing more than more ‘Woke Movement’ shenanigans.

To me, this is not about a statue, this is an attempt by some people to re-write history to fit a narrative that doesn’t exist in modern day United States.

Does racism exist in the world? Absolutely! But we can’t go around canceling everything that we don’t like about our history.

History is the only thing that stands the test of time, and it doesn’t matter how many statues you remove, hide, or melt, the facts will always remain the same.

The Jefferson School can go ahead and melt the statue and make whatever they think is going to sooth their soul with it, at the end of the day, whatever they make with it will be made with the same bronze used to build the statue.

I can see the conversation going this way, ‘Son, that used to be the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.’

General Lee’s statue may be gone, but his place in history will never be.

You can’t melt history away.

Time to Hit Businesses with Your Wallet

Any business asking for this doesn’t deserve your business! Photo courtesy of myfox47.com

I’m not one to advocate for boycotts, but I do believe in the power of the wallet and the choices we make by using it.

Businesses in places like New York City have gone out of their way to infringe on people’s rights and privacy by requiring prove of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test before taking their money.

Personal health information is private and protected under the law.  Why would you give that information to the minimum wage host?  You don’t have to!

A business asking citizens for a vaccine passport are, for all intent and purposes, practicing medical discrimination and you should not support any kind of discrimination under any circumstances.

As a consumer, you have the freedom of choice and the freedom to spend your money whichever way you want and wherever you want.  A business asking for my medical information is not going to get my business, period.

What businesses are failing to realize is the fact everything is available online.  I don’t have to go out to have a nice dinner or to buy anything I need.  I can order everything from the comfort of my home and without the harassment. 

Unfortunately, I am not surprised Americans are capitulating to this nonsense and willingly relinquishing their rights.  After all, most Americans are uniformed and don’t even know their own rights under the law.

Like the Roman Empire and the Roman satire of “Bread and Circuses”, our government has been operating the same way, but instead of food and gladiators, the government has given Americans free money we don’t have and network television.

Oh yes, network television, offering Americans the dumbest content you can think of it.  Mostly based on racial overtones, because today that’s supposed to be humorous, and no meaningful or intellectual content. 

That’s how you keep the population off the loop and Washington is an expert at doing so with the help of companies like Facebook, Twitter, and the major networks.

So how we move forward?  Simple, take your business and money elsewhere.  Do not give up your rights for the sake of a meal or a sporting event.  That’s how thing starts in a totalitarian society.  

They always start small, just as the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party did in 1933 and it went on to govern under a totalitarian system until 1945.  It didn’t end well for over 6 million Jews and the millions who died because of World War 2.

Little by little you give in and by the time you realize it, you have already given too much to take it back. 

Having to show prove of vaccination or a negative test may sound like small potatoes, but in the bigger scheme of things, is nothing more than a control measure and discriminatory in nature.

We should not reward any business who wishes to trample our God given rights under the law and the United States Constitution.

Our rights are worth fighting for.

A Day on the Town…..

Perhaps!!!!! Photo by H.R. Fernandez

I was driving around my town and came across this vehicle with a very peculiar message in its rear window.

There is not much to add to that message other than after watching Joe Biden destroy our economy, values, and future in a month’s period, I can understand how this fellow feels.

Unfortunately, our great country has been put on a very sad moral, social, and political path.