I believe every American has a right to object to statues, they think represent people they think were evil, or against certain things. Yet Mr. Trump, Number 45 is going too far off the tracks in calling Washington, and Jefferson evil, or calling for their images to be pulled down I am sorry I disagree 45 big time!
Here is, the difference folks, George Washington is a Patriot and the Leader of the Revolutionary Army and First President of The United States, yes he had slaves for so did most rich Americans in his era. Let’s not forget his forging ahead and fighting the war that made America a country that it is today. Let’s not forget he was America’sFirst President who set the tone for the government and helped create the three branches we have. Yes he had slaves, and in the end, when he died he released his slaves into freedom, so he was ahead of his time He believed all belonged free and he fought so this country could be formed and created. You tear down statues of Washington you are tearing down national history and forgetting where this country came from.
Thomas Jefferson served as a creator and founder of the country we all lived in and was a President and did fantastic things like expanding the country land , wise, and writing the Constitution we all live by. The era was different in their days and the world was too and America was a struggling nation they led through it;s rough beginnings. To say you want to tear down their statues, is stupid, Mr. Trump or to compare them to Robert E. Lee is stupid. Yet for a History Lesson for you, I will tell you this, you want to group all together there are some common factors among them. All were well read, all were a Patriots to the cause they believed in and for your information Robert E. Lee, StoneWall Jackson, Jefferson Davis all were patriots before they became Confederates.
History 45, shows Robert E, Lee was an American General who graduated West Point like Grant his opponent in The Civil War which was not originally fought just to free the slaves but over political and economic issues in the America we all love. I ask you this, would you like to be banned and torn down over a five year period in your life, because you fought on the wrong side in the Civil War? I doubt it because it was a period of time that lasted 5 years. What about the rest of their lives that they dedicated to the country as politicians, representatives and so much more. doesn’t that count? If it doesn’t then you really are a fool. America was created as a nation of freedoms that no other country or nation in the world had ever seen or heard of before. Yes, America made mistakes, and the biggest was bringing human beings here to use as slaves against their will. Let me remind you though of the1880s when the slaves were declared free to go and do and act as they pleased, by Abraham Lincoln a Republican President with moral, ethical and personal ideas and feelings from watching slaves be mistreated and used. He made the CIvil War, which started as I stated over other issues into a fight for the freedom of the slaves and their release. America finally did the right thing and gave that freedom to them and that ended in the right way.
There has been and will never be a place in the world for white supremacy, Nazis, or people who hate people for their nationality, skin color or anything else, you don’t like someone for some reason avoid them don’t deny them their right to live just as free as you and me period all deserve freedom and the same rights. I care not about nationality, color, race or where you come from and I defend the right to not like someone or something as much as anyone else, but I don’t and will never discriminate, or be a bigot like you are. Leave the statues alone, in all cases, if you ask me, it should be illegal to tear them down and destroy them. I don’t care what you believe as an individual about the people they represent, if people are as ignorant as you 45, then no monuments or statues will litter America’s lands. the statues were put up because the people they represent meant something to America, the people it represents and the freedoms we all have, leave them be. You 45 are a bigot, a narcissist personality and a fool for you know not, even your own countries history or reasons for being. On top of this I will say this, if people do not know the full history of the person in the statue, then put up plaques explaining who the person was and why the statue was created and gave the full life history of the person, not just that they had slaves, how about telling what they did to create, defend and represent their country and why the statues were built in the first place. One more thing I wish to add here, and I know it may someday anger and piss off African Americans, statues were built for Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and other African Americans, in America who did great things on a social basis for their people and America in general, but I remind you, if you tear down statues from Americans who were presidents senators and politicians, then someday people will call for the statues, of your respected and loved people to be torn down too. Protect all of them for they show the diversity of the country and its heritage. Teach don’t tear down!
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