In particular, vis-a-vis such attempts in the nation's capital, Washington D.C., of late...
As D J Trump has himself said - of which I'm in total agreement on this occasion - this sort of lawless attempt to rewrite America's history and destroy its cultural heritage...
must be stopped (dead in its tracks; ipso pronto; no ifs, buts or maybes)...
*/**Having said all of that, unlike some rather reactionary folk I'm personally of the view that an accommodation of sorts could potentially be made between the various warring factions in such matters, i.e.
such cultural artefacts of undoubted and undisputed historic significance and value could certainly - upon agreement and broad consensus within the body politic - progressively be removed, with due care and sensitivity, and relocated in various museums and the like and in such settings have a more thorough and balanced portrayal presented of all the various major perspectives upon such individual figures of note...
Just trying to be helpful, you understand, which in our day and age of over-the-top implacable bickering, rancour and dogged political partisanship surely couldn't be such a bad thing, you'd think...
But as I've said on other occasions, in a somewhat cynical vein, 'dreams are free', or (more optimistically, if way less realistically) one can only hope that such commonsense might one day prevail...
*Even just qualifying my preceding uncategorical assertion, I well realize and fully concede, doubtless seems to pretty much nullify that (previous) point. Accepting such an assessment as quite legitimate, I nevertheless - being the complicated and nuanced fellow I likewise am - choose to do so anyway, yet also wish to add another important caveat (or qualifier), namely
**That I simply find it impossible to question much less oppose whichever black Americans consider confederate statues (and associated publicly displayed Civil War 'memorabilia') to be outright offensive and worthy of only one possible fate, i.e. public humiliation and destruction...
...basically because those who have been so long downtrodden in such a despicable and appalling manner - as a watching world has looked upon with horror and unbelief and its own sense of outrage over recent years (as the systematic and systemic police violence against black - in particular, but certainly not solely - Americans throughout the lengths and breadths of the United States has been exposed time and again for all to see) - ***can hardly be blamed for finally rising up and declaring: "Enough is enough!"...
***Though I have always heartily 'endorsed' (for want of a better word) the nonviolent road of civil disobedience so ably and effectively articulated by and practiced by the likes of Martin Luther King Junior, when studying a paper in American History (from the Civil War era through the Carter years), I recall being so appalled by the treatment of blacks for so very long I could briefly see the sorts of 'arguments' advocated by the likes of Malcolm X and, if my memory serves me aright, Stokely Carmichael in simply wishing to have the (basic human) 'right' to defend themselves and their families upon being, for example, attacked without reason in the sanctity of their own homes...
Although I wish their (in my view often patronizing and condescending, and moreover gratuitously virtue-signalling) fellow-travellers...such as for instance some prominent (especially foundational) members of the Black Lives Movement...would 'cease and desist' forthwith from what to myself anyhow are rather disingenuous attempts (unfortunately overly 'successful' thus far) to hijack the holding police to account (and now also statue-dismantling) movement for their own ideological agenda and political ends...
effectively using it even, I would argue - ****as others have (and much more ably than myself, I'll readily concede) - as pretty much a Trojan Horse...
****Such as *****the 700 Club's articulate and measured, ever mild-mannered, reasoned and reasonable, Gordon Robertson...
*****As occasionally seen upon New Zealand's Shine TV weekday evening Newscast (from 6 p.m.).
As D J Trump has himself said - of which I'm in total agreement on this occasion - this sort of lawless attempt to rewrite America's history and destroy its cultural heritage...
must be stopped (dead in its tracks; ipso pronto; no ifs, buts or maybes)...
*/**Having said all of that, unlike some rather reactionary folk I'm personally of the view that an accommodation of sorts could potentially be made between the various warring factions in such matters, i.e.
such cultural artefacts of undoubted and undisputed historic significance and value could certainly - upon agreement and broad consensus within the body politic - progressively be removed, with due care and sensitivity, and relocated in various museums and the like and in such settings have a more thorough and balanced portrayal presented of all the various major perspectives upon such individual figures of note...
Just trying to be helpful, you understand, which in our day and age of over-the-top implacable bickering, rancour and dogged political partisanship surely couldn't be such a bad thing, you'd think...
But as I've said on other occasions, in a somewhat cynical vein, 'dreams are free', or (more optimistically, if way less realistically) one can only hope that such commonsense might one day prevail...
*Even just qualifying my preceding uncategorical assertion, I well realize and fully concede, doubtless seems to pretty much nullify that (previous) point. Accepting such an assessment as quite legitimate, I nevertheless - being the complicated and nuanced fellow I likewise am - choose to do so anyway, yet also wish to add another important caveat (or qualifier), namely
**That I simply find it impossible to question much less oppose whichever black Americans consider confederate statues (and associated publicly displayed Civil War 'memorabilia') to be outright offensive and worthy of only one possible fate, i.e. public humiliation and destruction...
...basically because those who have been so long downtrodden in such a despicable and appalling manner - as a watching world has looked upon with horror and unbelief and its own sense of outrage over recent years (as the systematic and systemic police violence against black - in particular, but certainly not solely - Americans throughout the lengths and breadths of the United States has been exposed time and again for all to see) - ***can hardly be blamed for finally rising up and declaring: "Enough is enough!"...
***Though I have always heartily 'endorsed' (for want of a better word) the nonviolent road of civil disobedience so ably and effectively articulated by and practiced by the likes of Martin Luther King Junior, when studying a paper in American History (from the Civil War era through the Carter years), I recall being so appalled by the treatment of blacks for so very long I could briefly see the sorts of 'arguments' advocated by the likes of Malcolm X and, if my memory serves me aright, Stokely Carmichael in simply wishing to have the (basic human) 'right' to defend themselves and their families upon being, for example, attacked without reason in the sanctity of their own homes...
Although I wish their (in my view often patronizing and condescending, and moreover gratuitously virtue-signalling) fellow-travellers...such as for instance some prominent (especially foundational) members of the Black Lives Movement...would 'cease and desist' forthwith from what to myself anyhow are rather disingenuous attempts (unfortunately overly 'successful' thus far) to hijack the holding police to account (and now also statue-dismantling) movement for their own ideological agenda and political ends...
effectively using it even, I would argue - ****as others have (and much more ably than myself, I'll readily concede) - as pretty much a Trojan Horse...
****Such as *****the 700 Club's articulate and measured, ever mild-mannered, reasoned and reasonable, Gordon Robertson...
*****As occasionally seen upon New Zealand's Shine TV weekday evening Newscast (from 6 p.m.).
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