Jason Wilson, The Guardian: Why is the US still fighting the civil war?
Confederate symbols have become a crucible of racial tension in the US. White nationalists claim they are important monuments – but are they just a way to rewrite an ugly history and revive the battles of the past?
In St Paul’s memorial church in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Friday, just up the street from where white supremacists were gathering for a torchlight rally, Cornel West explained why African Americans saw the removal of Confederate monuments as so important.
On hearing that hundreds of white supremacists were gathered in a nearby park, the civil rights leader said, with a hint of weariness: “These are chickens coming home to roost. We should have eliminated these statues a long time ago.
“The idea that the American family has to embrace figures like [Confederate general] Robert E Lee, or Stonewall Jackson, who were fundamentally committed to enslaving black people in perpetuity … These people are not heroes.”
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- August 11, 2017
8 million dead - what nuclear war with North Korea could look like -- Harry J. Kazianis, FOX News
Where did North Korea get its missile technology? -- Roman Goncharenko, DW
Why didn't sanctions stop North Korea’s missile program? -- Daniel Salisbury, Defense News
New sanctions seeing impact, setting off a diplomatic row between China, North Korea -- Justin Hastings, Channel News Asia
Is China being left behind in US-N.Korea sparring? -- AFP
China, and North Korea's Nuclear Ambitions -- Peter Huessy, RCD
Between old foe and aggressive ally, no honeymoon for South Korea's Moon -- Ju-min Park and Heekyong Yang, Reuters
A new strategy for Afghanistan: change course, quit the fight -- Daniel L. Davis, Washington Times
The US Is Headed Toward Another Cuban Missile Crisis -- John A. Tures, Observer
Sectarian War Is Looming Over Afghanistan -- Rustam Ali Seerat, The Diplomat
How to Destroy Afghanistan: Establish a Private Contractor Army -- Molly Dunigan, National Interest
What Does Victory Look Like in Afghanistan? -- Adam Wunische, RCD/The Bridge
To ‘Win’ in Afghanistan, Devise a Strategy and Do Not Quit -- Robert Cassidy, RCD
The specter of civil war in Venezuela -- Washington Post editorial
Why is the US still fighting the civil war? -- Jason Wilson, The Guardian
11 comments:
Not fewer statues, more statues. For every Statue of Gen. Lee, put one up of Gen. Sherman right across from it. Sanitizing history doesn't solve anything.
What Russ said
That won't work, Sherman was involved in the Indian wars after he finished up with the south...he's next to come down.
The establishment Left in the US wants to erase the history of Southern succession because they are nervous about the rising successionist movements around the world. Although not the primary cause of the "Civil War" the Union eventually had the moral authority regarding slavery. But, the Confederacy had the moral high ground against the growing overreach of the Federal government in which is so pervasive today.
I believe the Confederacy had the legal right to secede.
They did not have the moral high ground.
Abraham Lincoln did not have the authority to close down the press, but he did it.
The Left, the Democrats, want to whitewash history and pretend that the KKK was not their military arm.
The Democrats, good liberals all, killed many black & white Republicans after the Civil War
What's baffle me is people are fighting.....the past! We are in the 21th century and that's a big deal enough to fight for the future. Humans have lost the north.
LMFAO,
'murkin's,
Nurse murdered by Nazi's,
Special Needs Educator beaten half to death by armed Nazi's,
Librarian beaten into a stroke by Nazi's,
murkin's shouting "blood and soil", "Jews will not replace us",
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/charlottesville-neo-nazis-vice-news-hbo
people, a waste of space, and when like Neimoller, the 'Murkin Nazi's shove you into death camp'a, I'll lLMFO,
Because you are just fucking Nazi's and a waste of space.
The Revolution always consumes it's own. Remember the Night of the Long Knives you fucking Nazi's.
"They did not have the moral high ground"
Tell that to the millions upon millions of innocent people murdered, tortured and enslaved by authoritarian central governments throughout the 20th century.
The past, for minorities, never ended in the US.
Unarmed minorities are being murdered and incarcerated by the State, at roughly 2X the rate of the worst end of the Reconstruction,
At 3.5X the rate of Jim Crow,
At 4.8X the rate of the Civil Rights Movement.
To put it into context you might understand, the Proud Boy's/Cornwallis/First Nations "clash",
Under British Law, ( James the 4th, 90' years before)Cornwallis, was required by law, to gain access to the land that became Halifax, by a treaty with the First Nations, severing First Nations Rights, to a defined area of land.
He didn't, he just took it through force of arms.
That's not noted on the statue.
When the Micmac Nation, responded with protest, later arms, he responded with a genocidal military campaign, including biological weapons, against the Micmac people,
*sorry for the spelling, to any First Nations people who read this.
Or any other offence, gross simplification of the status and relationships really doesn't "cut it",
sorry
Not noted on the statue,
He also responded with a racist "scalp" requirement, empowering vigalantes to collect scalps, Micmac, Malicete, Beothuck, Penobscot, Huron,for a bounty, as long as they were Indian, allied, enemy, didn't matter, from as far as 500 miles away and unaware of Halifax, the collector got £1.
That launched a genocidal wave of killing First Nations, from Maine to Newfoundland, for profit, up and down the coast, dead First Nations were worth more than beaver.
Not even mentioned on the statue.
The Cornwallis "scheme" collapsed when even Spanish traders started showing up with Inca scalps, trying to claim the "bounty", the colony of Halifax wound up with a €1.2 million pound debt,
Not mentioned on the statue,
For scalps,
Which was finally settled in 1798,
In today's dollars, that's a $269 billion dollar debt,
Not on the statue.
Imagine if, after the fall of the Soviet Union,
The Daughters and the Son's of the Reicht Foundation, were erecting,
Monuments to the Nazi's, Gudarian, Eichman, Gobbels, on historic soil, like Babi Yar, or the Warsaw Ghetto,
At the same time that the former Warsaw Pact States, were enacting Jim Crow Laws, but for Russians. Seperate water fountains in Poland for Russians, and Humans, Russian's to the back of the bus in Estonia. Ukrainian only hotels, restaurants and nightclubs in Odessa,
WNU Editor would be screaming,
The stupidity and naziism here, always amazes me.
Once upon a time, we had the Enlightenment,
Seems it's just Nazi's and closet Nazi's these days.
LMFAO,
I'm Native and I can tell you turning the Native Community into Victims is destroying us, most of us a embarrassed by the do-gooders and we despise you for it, I prefer dealing with the racists at least they I know where they stand the may hate us but the don't embarrass us, when I was in the Armed Forces I got promoted over more qualified people because I was Native, it was embarrassing, I eventually put in to get released and was told that I should stay, they had plans and I was to be promoted right up the line not because I was a good soldier but because I was Native, do you have any idea how this makes a person feel. God I despise do-gooders. As far as Cornwallis goes it was the Nature of War at the time, there was plenty of English killed by Natives as they were fighting a Guerilla War financed by the French, if they used similar tactics in Afghanistan the War there would have been over in a couple of years.
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