Nice. Maybe they could put a hammer and sickle inside the starry wreath
and MAGA across the top red bar, and
. I don't know - Ooooh I know, maybe something like Deport All Liberals across the bottom bar.
You know - give it a modern touch.
...and yet today, I saw an article in the liberal New York Times today honoring the memory of the Emporor who built the Taj Mahal.
They tell us what a wonderful piece of art it is now that the Metropolitan Museum owns it.
Thing is, what the NYT fails to mention, is that this architectural wonder, the Taj Mahal, was built on the backs of slave labor.
Lots of slaves.
The Mughals were notorious slavers and oppressors who murdered millions of Hindus.
This background info isn't provided in that article.
But anytime a BLM protestor sees a statue of Robert E. Lee, it somehow reminds them of oppression, bondage and rape.
Seems it's OK if all this historical oppression is OK if it happened in somebody else's backyard, except their own.
Just like Obama loves to condemn the Confederacy, but freely traded with Saudi Arabia, where slavery - or Black Africans - and from Kenya, his ancestral homeland - is still going strong.
Anyways at least those Confederate monuments were built with paid labor, since they appeared after slavery in the USA was officially abolished.
Well, Joe - maybe you should call BLM HQ and tell them how they need to run things.
I mean it really is remarkable they aren't thinking international
and are solely focused on the small potatoes limited vision of a national movement.
Well, even from a National Perspective, the BLM/ANTIFA group hold a double standard.
They want to tear down Confederate monuments while failng to acknowledge the crimes of those who fought to defeat the Confederacy.
Most notable of these was the Union General William T. Sherman, who burned down Atlanta, perhaps killing innocent civilians.
I mean...how many Innocent civilians such as women, children & elderly did Sheman burn to death?
If a Confederate General should be judged by a strict modern moral standard, then so should Sherman. Today his actions would be considered war crimes, unacceptable in accordance with the Geneva convention.
By pointing out Sherman's crimes, this in no way exonerates his Southern counterparts. It's just that if one is guilty, then why not the other? Why go out of one's way to destroy Confederate monuments when the same isn't done to Sherman's? Lee's status get taken down, while Sherman's gold statues are allowed to remain standing.
Even tho he may have been much less honourable and civil in battle than Lee. I believe that if the latter ordered his soldiers to kill others, it was soldiers not civilians or to destroy their property.
On top of having statues in his honor, Sherman had a tank named after him. Y'know, whenever we honor military men, there's always someone's blood they spilt, someone's son they killed. And regarldless of the side they support, the people who fund the building of those monuments, there's always blood on their hands too.
Tearing down Confederate cultures is more or less Cancel Culture, designing history as they see fit, not portraying what actually happened. BLM activists are all too quick to point out the atrocities of the Confederacy, but turn a blind eye to their own heroes. If they're gonna go after the Confederacy and hunt it down, maybe they should look inwards and tear down some of their own.