First, may I point out that nowhere in our Constitution are we guaranteed the right never to be insulted or made to feel uncomfortable. God help us if such a “right” is ever added to our governing documents.
For many years the lunatic left has demanded such rights, and if they don’t get them, they feel perfectly justified in engaging in violence and intimidation to obtain and enforce them. What about the rights and opinions of those who they are oppressing, you ask? Why they’re unimportant, of course. Only the needs of the left need be addressed.
So, what issues offend Democrats, who are for all intents and purposes interchangeable with all the mainstream leftist movements? The list is long, and getting longer. First and foremost is anything dealing with the Confederacy or the institution of slavery. That stirs up a hornets nest of righteous indignation, and must be expunged. The problem with that is that history can’t be expunged, only studied, and used as an example of what should or should not be done by present and future generations.
One fact is undeniable. No person alive today was enslaved in this country. Furthermore, it is doubtful that any person born to a former slave is still alive either. So, what we have left is some descendants of former slaves. In addition to them, we have blacks whose ancestors immigrated to this country, legally or illegally, from Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa or other parts of the world. Their ancestors weren’t enslaved here either.
On the other side of the historical ledger are all non-black Americans. Since the majority of their ancestors arrived decades after the last American slave was freed, how can they be held liable to pay so-called “Reparations” to the ancestors of enslaved American blacks? In a just society they can’t, but that doesn’t mean that with the wrong political party in power, they won’t be. Continue reading Flags & Other Symbols