Nnanji
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ORIGINAL: kdsub Vince I am sorry but I don't waste my time reading Tom so his comments are not relevant but yours are...I always appreciate your viewpoint although we often disagree. There is no doubt in my mind that there are many racists in this matter....please don't think i am defending them. I also have no doubt that there are many non-racists that are just as I said...defending their heritage... there is a difference. We have work to do as a society when it comes to our racial attitudes and I am not denying this. But you should stop grouping all people together because of the actions of a few. I hear this all the time when it comes to Muslims and agree but this logic should also be applied to this situation. Many people, myself included, think our ancestral heritage is important... it is a link to the past for good or bad... They are a part of me... their genes course through my body... I care little about your attitude towards them. I happen to believe people fighting in the Civil war for the CSA should be forgiven their sins. They were victims of their upbringing in their attitudes towards blacks... Today however there is no excuse and we should all be appalled at the racists attitudes displayed. There is only one moral side and it is certainly not with the white racists in Charlottsville. My personal opinion is no statue or monument glorifying the CSA should be on Public property. Here in St. Louis a monument to the CSA was on display in our public park. The decision, and a wise one, was to have the monument removed and given to a history society for display. This is as it should be handled. I just wanted to point out that not all those protesting the monument removal are racists and I attempted to explain what i thought their reasoning may be... I am not saying they are even right to protest, but it is their right, but they should be separated from the obvious racists that you are describing and we are seeing. Butch What heritage ? The real heritage you write of...is racism, slavery and subjugation. ISIS and the rest of our current Islamic jihad pay such homage to such sectarian (often racist) ideals ? A sympathizer on a story about Russia wrote that he is sure there are some proud Russians that would show popular dissent or discontent with that current moment in affairs. I thought, just what does a Russian have to be proud of ? Would it be living under Czarist or communist despotism since the dark ages be what makes them so proud ? Despite the often violent and tragic pains involved, I'll take the far superior values and 'heritage' of the west. That's right...the only thing, the absolute only heritage from the south is slavery. What a simpleton. Oh, yes, the west is only about dark age repression and slavery. What a simple mind. I'll have to put off that trip to the Louve because I can't stand being confronted by all of that art based on slavery.
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