And here we have the insanity of the Cultural Marxist on full display:
District of Columbia residents and tourists weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag, some saying the nation should go as far as renaming Washington, D.C.
CNN anchor Don Lemon recently floated the idea of re-thinking the Jefferson Memorial, dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, since he was a slave owner.
“There may come a day when we want to re-think Jefferson, I don’t know if we should do that, but when we get to that point, I’ll be happy to partake in that particular discussion,” Lemon said.
“It should come down,” one D.C. resident told PJ Media, referencing the Jefferson Memorial in Washington.
“If we do that, though, George Washington owned slaves. Should we rename Washington, D.C.?” he was asked.
“You have to draw the line at some point, I guess, maybe take a poll across the country and see what people think about it and if they want to rename the city, do it,” he said. “I would support changing the American flag as well. America is based on a lot of mass killings and slavery and the history is just – look at the Germans, they own up to the Holocaust, nobody is proud of their history. Americans, at least, you should not be proud of any mass killing. You should not be proud of anything wrong that’s been done in the past or any symbols that represent that and that’s all.”
Another man suggested renaming Washington “Black City” or “Mixed City.”
This is what communists do. They re-write their country’s history in their own image and try and pass themselves off as noble and good.
Sorry, but you cannot confront history by erasing it. And nobody alive today has ever even known a slave. At least not an official one. I’d argue that welfare, the draft, and student loans are simply slavery, but since the government does, it’s okay, right?
The point is, these people are insane. They need to be ignored, not embraced. This country isn’t perfect, it doesn’t have a perfect history, but it has a proud history. It has a history of men who stood up to much, much lesser tyrannies than this and died for it. They built a new nation based on the assumption that most people are not idiots (a fallacy at best).
It time to try something different, to try and make a country truly ruled by the consent of the governed rather than a populace appeased by the bread and circuses of the tyrant. Sure, it hasn’t worked out as well as one might hope, but the point is you don’t destroy history because you don’t like it.
And isn’t naming Washington D.C. “Black City” a racist term in and of itself?