Ok, I kinda get that. He body, her choice and all that.
But if that is the case, then she can’t sue some dude for getting her pregnant either. He wants to choose his path too. And it is half his DNA.
(Yes, I am wearing my asbestos Underoos, Fire away)
Long way away from me (like an entire day’s drive, 20+ hours), but I think If I were closer I’d be there, not to defend the Confederacy, but to defend the statue from vandalism….It is, after all, public property.
Especially since these folks are doing mob action. I hate that. Destruction of a symbol because of the “Hate Du Jour” is a Bad Idea.
It is, essentially, a symbolic Lynching.
Will that affect one black person’s future? Will it fix the problems in the black community? Deal with the cultural issues that keep many young black males from graduating, change the fact that great numbers of young black women have children BEFORE graduating, most black women raise their children without a father (or often leave them to be raised by their grandmothers…who are often unmarried themselves)….Will it keep the gang violence from happening in black neighborhoods? Will it keep the drug violence from the gangs from happening? Will it suddenly make the community HELP the police, instead of “I Din See Nuttin’ “? Will it keep young blacks from going on rampages of fighting and orgies of stealing that makes every other race look at them suspiciously?
Will it help them find jobs that they cannot currently qualify for because those higher paying jobs require that one not have a criminal record and that you pass a drug screen? That you speak plain english?
Will pulling down all those statues fix any of that? Really? Will those issues change overnight because we banned the Confederate history, flag and monuments?
Will it right any of the wrongs that occurred 4 and 5 and 6 generations ago? Will it change any of the history?
WILL IT FIX ANYTHING?
No one can do any research. None of them can be be bothered to check if the current reason for the outrage of the day is actually accurate.
They just climb on that bandwagon and scream and hoot and REACT with the rest of the primates, secure in their belief that the crowd is always right. (or the State) and that their arbitrary and poorly thought out actions (if they are thought at all) will be justified.
It is no wonder that they are opposed by mature, right thinking folks.
Are they too blind or too stupid to see they are being led? Herded like cattle by those who would stir their emotions to gain? Like 3 year olds? One would expect that children could be easily led, but these are otherwise intelligent (if overly emotional) adults.
I find the reactions of some of my fellow citizens to be scary, in a “1984” sort of way
Sharpton wants the Thomas Jefferson Memorial to come down.
Watch the video at the bottom. It is telling.
(Notice how the death of the two Troopers in a helicopter accident is blamed on the protests (and notice how Sharpton is led to say the things Charlie Rose wants him to say))
Even a 16 year old shot in the head at 4 PM.
A very Urban neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.
Guess those statues coming down didn’t help.
Odd.
Just like making the Confederate Flag a hate symbol didn’t fix things a few years ago…
Maybe it isn’t the symbols that are the problem?
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, “1984”
Making good decisions will.
Don’t have a record before you are 16. Girls, don’t get pregnant before marriage. Do your kids a favor and only have kids with someone who can be a father Do yourself a favor and finsh high school first.
Be able to pass a drug test.
Learn to speak decent english. If you are white it will help. If you are a minority, and can pair that with passing a drug test, you can go far. Add in a high school diploma and you will find a lot of places doing their best to hire you.
The above will do lightyears more to advance blacks in our society than tearing down a statue or renaming a street.
But it is hard to get a crowd of minorities to self reflect, innit?
I mean, it was racially motivated, right? Or does that only apply to white folks?
Police charge Takiyah Thompson in desecration of confederate memorial
Thompson said she helped take down the statue because she was tired of living in fear.
The monument was dedicated to “the boys in gray,” she said.
“It’s white supremacy. Plain and simple,” she said. “And it had to go”
Yeah, Ms Thompson, that’s gonna fix all yer problems there.
I hope she rots in jail. And I hope they sue her for damages. Big money (although she likely has very little).
Yeah, that is the same way I feel about you folks who want to tear down monuments here in the US just because you disagree with what YOU think they stand for.
Not just statues of Confederate Generals, but monuments to just plain old soldiers who ft for their homes. Few of them over had the wherewithal to own a slave. Just poor folks fighting for their homeland.
Yet you want to destroy ’em because to you, all things Confederate mean slave to your ignorant uneducated mind. Because some jackass whose knowledge you cannot judge says so.
I’m not from the South. Born and raised in the midwest. Yet your actions anger and disgust me.
Feel free to find someone from your culture’s past that is worth raising a monument to. Gather enough donations and have a statue cast or a sculpture made. I will support space in a park for that, if you can find a figure worthy and can raise the cash.
(Hint: That is how those statues and monuments got there….people paid for ’em and donated them to the city or the park).
Otherwise you are no better than those seventh century savages in Afghanistan.