My friend Dan said, “A racist in a
sports car runs over a crowd of counter-protesters. His act was instigated by
his anger over state officials having removed a statue of Robert E. Lee, a
symbol of oppression and bigotry that was erroneously sanctioned by the State
of Virginia. The state’s decision to remove it addresses one simple question:
Why should African Americans pay taxes to support erecting a statue of a man
whom had he won, would have kept them in bondage? They shouldn’t, thus the
removal was the right thing to do, so don’t give me that bullshit Lee is just
part of their history or heritage. For in this case, as James Joyce put it,
‘History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’”
Matt Mattingly, Joseph Bryan Judd
and I were just in Joe’s book store wondering when the Virginia racists would
start killing people. But we were behind the times. They already had.
This was fascist murder, coldly
planned and executed, to protect the symbol of a state that fought for human
slavery.
Let’s remember, there’s only one
side that's wrong here. Utterly, historically wrong. And — for anyone who can’t
add two and two, and lacks all moral sense — that would be the side fighting to
protect a memorial celebrating a rebel slave state. Don’t let anyone try to
“both sides” their way out of this horror.
I'm looking forward to the
holidays this year. I want to greet the people who tried to lecture me last
year on what a great president Trump would make. Always presuming we survive to
the holidays, of course.
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