CFP: [ Herman Cain] Atlanta’s Bishop Jerome Dukes was quoted widely in the media last week explaining why he thinks we should be spending time protesting statues of people from the Confederacy, and ultimately having them taken down.
He explains that some of our nation’s founders may have seemed like visionaries and trailblazers to some, but to African-Americans all that matters is that they owned hundreds of slaves.
Let’s talk about that.
I am an African-American. I hate the institution of slavery as much as Bishop Dukes does. But I have noticed something he seems to have missed. I am not a slave! And neither is he.
Slavery was an awful historical injustice, and it helped set in motion many of the problems the black community faces today. But it is not the problem we need to solve today. Those problems are poverty, illiteracy, drugs, crime and violence.
Tearing down statues doesn’t solve any of those problems, and solving those problems is what we need to be focused on.
It might create a problem, though. Tearing down statues that represent history is like pretending history didn’t happen. It did. And not everything that results from history is something you will like. We need to remember all of it, even (and perhaps especially) the parts that bother us because this is what we learn from.
Now we’re hearing that it’s not enough to tear down statues of Confederate soldiers, because having fought for the slave-owning Confederacy is not the only sin that needs to be erased from history. Now some want to tear down memorials to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson too, because they also owned slaves.
Tell you what: Why don’t you erase from history every reference to a person who had a serious character flaw? Do that and you’ll have very short history books. You’ll be able to get through a semester in a day or two. There’d be almost nothing you would be able to teach. more here
Sadly, seven murdered black folk in Chicago this weekend could not be reached for comment…
Why didn’t these statues bother them when their racist president Obama was in office for eight long years?
“But it is not the problem we need to solve today. Those problems are poverty, illiteracy, drugs, crime and violence. Tearing down statues doesn’t solve any of those problems, …”
Not doesn’t solve those problems, but it does take those issues out of the spotlight.
Why didn’t these statues bother them when their racist president Obama was in office for eight long years?
While there are a lot of talented, accomplished Blacks that have made a good life for themselves, this message id directed to the deaf ears of the democRAT plantation dwellers, wholly dependent on the Federal government, who brand Herman as an Uncle Tom for speaking the truth.
Excellent article. Plain sense. Thank you, Mr. Cain.
You can’t fix stupid. American flag is next. Why not? The door’s wide open.
So when all the statues and reminders of the past are removed and history is rewritten, will their problems still exist? Yes, they will. Like all of us, they need a new heart by following God and not their own evil desires.
Please show the nice lady where the statue touched you
Let’s remove the rock people, then the blacks will flourish!
Whenever you have the chance, point out to the leftist antihistorians that Mohammed owned slaves and he codified slavery into the civil structure of Islam where it still exists and is practiced to this day. It’s mosques that should be torn down.
Let them tear the statues down and erase history. If that is what it takes to never have to hear about slavery ever again, then I’m all for it.
No bad history, no complaining.
No complaints, no special treatment.
Hysterical hateful brainwashed snowflake mobs. One should never give in to a mob.
This Stutue Struggle seems to Be More Territorial than Anything Else.
I Think Ownership is What it’s About , With Blacks Feeling Like Whites Own the South Eastern United States . This Was’nt a Problem I Was Aware of Until The Lib’s Began Their Fever Pitch Tailspin !!!
Who is better off, American blacks or African blacks? If America offers you free first class transportation to any African nation of your choice, and you promise to stay there, will you accept the offer?
Being that The Statues are Historical Monuments, and Pure American History Should’nt the Statues be Voted On ???
We Can’t Have Random People Deciding What History is and is Not !
Historians were History Majors For a Reason … You All Knowing Hippocrit Students !!!
AS far as erasing history goes ..I don’t believe that there were ever any black slaves ever in America………. Ask everyone to forget history and there will eventually be those who say “what is your proof slavery DID exist!! Watch what you ask for……. dumbas people
Great editorial with plenty of common sense. It will be lost on the stupid, who think destroying the United States solves the “hate/racist” problem which doesn’t exist.
The good news is,once all the statues are gone, blacks are going to stop bitching and get
a job and be productive members of our society.
Right?
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Then they’ll after something stupid like fire hydrants.
“Tell you what: Why don’t you erase from history every reference to a person who had a serious character flaw?”
Seems that would make all books and writings about Jesus the Christ.
While I love Him, sounds boring and I’d be surprised if He wanted truths about this world hidden from us.