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Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 11:23 AM

OUR VIEW: 08/20/2017- Removing Statues Frenzy And Madness Is Left's  Effort To Hide The Democratic Party's Racist Past

This effort is hiding behind a self-righteous, pseudo morally superior label by protesters saying these statues represent America's "racist" past. In removing them, these same people believe that somehow, like magical pixie dust, racism will go away.

I posed a question this morning to my 15-year old son Caleb and asked him what he thought about this effort to remove all these statues.

His quote was beyond wise and made me proud I was his dad even though he knows dad is poor and there will be no raise in his allowance for a while, just saying. He said "dad, you know that if you think about history there have always been times where evil existed. Think of the Holocaust and Adolf Hitler. No one wants to see a statue of Hitler, but if my generation doesn’t know who he was and what he represented, then we'd never know how evil he really was." Wise kid despite his dad being Christopher Wayne McDonald.

That strikes at the extreme insidiousness of this movement and the utter stupidity of leaders embracing it and participating in it. We somehow foolishly believe that racism is encapsulated in wood and stone when in fact racism is embedded in the hearts of men! Men lead political parties and while the media and Democrats want the public to believe they are saving humanity from these "racist" Republicans led by President Donald Trump by doing this, they forget that history books tell a different story.

And that is why they are doing this. They want to hide the Democratic Party's racist past and shove it into warehouses and museums without the public ever knowing that it was the Democrats, not Republicans, who embodied the greatest racism perpetuated upon the black community in the history of America.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh said as much the other day when he had wry advice for activists targeting historical monuments to combat racism: “You’ve got to get rid of the Democrat Party.”

Dinesh D'Souza, a great historian and author who I respect greatly and admonish my readers to get his latest book, "The Big Lie," says the same thing.

These same hypocritical Democrats who are parading around like clowns in their moral cloaks of self-righteousness and calling for the disposal and destruction of what they perceive as racist symbols against blacks, have NEVER been on the side of African Americans, from either a historical or MORAL perspective.

They are merely pathetic race baiters who think the American public is too stupid to see what they are doing. Well, on that last part, maybe they are on to something there. That's at least what they are banking on – our apathy and ignorance.

Let us be clear before we go any further in this editorial that slavery and all forms of oppression were evil during the civil war and remain evil today. The deeper issue however, is these left-wing activist groups are using the evil of slavery to hide behind a more sinister agenda to destroy America from within through their efforts to race bait, stir emotions among the ignorant and weak, and use deliberate and deceptive efforts to stir racial unrest. This will only succeed if we let it!

In doing research for our upcoming pod cast I found an interesting footnote of history regarding slaves and the Civil War. On the eve of the Civil War there were about 4 million slaves in America. ALL of those slaves were owned by DEMOCRATS, both in the North and the South. You want to know how many REPUBLICAN slave owners there were at the same time? ZERO! NONE! NOTTA! ZILCH!

Here's some other thoughts about the evils of slavery THEN and the evils of the Democratic Party NOW that I submit for your consideration in a simple capsule form:

Slavery's Evil Principle During Civil War: "You Work, I Eat"
Democrats 2017 Welfare Platform: "You Work, I Eat"
Democratic Position 1861 - Lincoln, Republicans Evil For Wanting To Abolish Slavery In South To End Slave Owners Leeching Off The Labor Of Others
Democratic Position 2017: President Trump and All His Supporters Are Racist Wanting People Who Can Work To Work And Support Themselves

In other words, the whole idea of slavery to begin with was to use the efforts and work of another individual to further one's own sustenance, wealth, and life while allowing the one doing the work to suffer and go without.

When Lincoln and the Republicans fought against slavery it was the Democrats who opposed such efforts which ultimately led to the Civil War. Following the Union's victory, these same Democrats who were at the heart for the fight to keep slavery legal, used violent groups like the KKK to fight back and suppress black voter registration after the Civil War to make sure they themselves would remain in power. Nothing much has changed in Democrats using the black community to further their political agendas.

Move the clock forward to 2017. The Democratic position today is not much different. Most Democrats who oppose President Trump's economic agenda do it yes, one, because they hate him to begin with, but two, they know, that if President Trump can get people back to work and provide jobs for those in African-American communities, then the welfare program of the Democrats, which is based on the same idea - "You Work, I Eat," principle, is in serious trouble!!

The welfare program of America has always been to help those who are in NEED, not those in GREED. Untold numbers of individuals getting benefits from the government, including many illegal immigrants, are getting assistance on the backs of taxpayers who are doing the work, while they themselves do nothing yet eat in plenty.

Many benefits that are given right now to illegal immigrants are benefits that most of you reading this right now will never see or would never see if you needed the same help! Don't believe me? Ask any veteran how hard it's been over the past several decades to get help from their own Veterans Administration while those who are not even citizens bask in the glory of health benefits and other goodies Uncle Sam's pimps, known as the Democrats, have been more than willing to give away for free in exchange for votes.

So, when President Trump called out both the left and right last weekend in Charlottesville for the terrible violence that led to three deaths, the media, the Democrats and establishment Swamp Infested Republicans saw their grand opportunity to make sure they played the race card as well as take a shot to rewrite history in a way to hide their own bigotry and malice towards the same people they claimed they were defending!!

Think about it folks. The Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in America are at best a relatively small fringe group that have both lost all influence in America in recent decades, while other groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa number in the tens of thousands in their following.

Yet as a response to the violence, which some believe was staged to begin with, and President Trump's remarks, American anarchists and stupid politicians took to the streets to remove symbols of racism in their mind in hopes that it would appease those who supposedly were fighting "facism."

It's been both pathetic and comical to watch. So, forgive me if I'm not all bent out of shape about what President Trump's response was last week to Charlottesville. He was actually RIGHT for calling out both sides and there IS the same moral equivalence between the two groups - they both traffic and operate in HATE!! So when losers, and yes they are losers, like Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney join the Democrats in their "moral" outrage about what the President said - I simply shake my head and laugh. Mitt tends to forget his offensive words about poor people back in 2012 when he was getting his backside handed to him in President Obama's reelection bid.

To be fair, President Trump could have stated some things more clearly and yes been stronger in some ways that he spoke the first day without a doubt. But he explained that he was still getting the facts about what took place when he made his first comments. He's not a politician and this will not be the last mistake he makes when it comes to these things.

But let me assure you that the aftermath and response to HIS comments have been nothing more than calculated posturing by the swamp in Washington D.C. to make sure political power is consolidated and President Trump's efforts to make things right and fair economically are marginalized. Where was the outrage from these pundits and morons when police officers were assassinated last year in Dallas, New York and Louisiana. Crickets.

President Trump is not a racist, never has been and never will be. That’s what makes those who throw that term around like candy about him more than pathetic – they are just as putrid and repugnant as anything that was on display in Charlottesville last weekend.

If people REALLY wanted to erase reminders of slavery & segregation, then they should consider getting rid of the Party who started this entire racism game – the Democrats. Believe e when I tell you that the tearing down of statues will NEVER satisfy the blood lust of these left-wing activist loons. After they are done with the statues they will be coming for something else that offends them!

For example, Mr. (He’s no Rev.) Al "race-baiter in chief" Sharpton said Monday night on PBS host Charlie Rose’s show that the Jefferson Memorial was a “personal” affront akin to subsidizing insults towards his family. That’s just rich isn’t it. I think Mr. Sharpton himself is a personal affront to those in this nation tired of his racial identity politics and shameful rhetoric. He's an evil man with an evil heart.

Former basketball star and now Sports Caster Charles Barkley shot back at this stupid mindset of Sharpton saying a few days after, "I'm not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who's gonna hate me no matter what," the NBA Hall of Famer told WRBC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama.

“I’m 54 years old,” Barkley said. “I’ve never thought about those statues a day in my life. I think if you ask most black people, to be honest, they ain’t thought a day in their life about those stupid statues.”

Barkley has not minced words when pointing out what he sees as his black community's problems, such as last year when he spoke about violence against cops. But on the issue of violence against cops, Mr. Sharpton had no comment on his soap box radio show about that. Lovely.

The Klan were all Democrats, and the segregationists in the South were all Democrats. But now all of a sudden, these same Democrats and left-wing loons want to tear down the statues of Robert E. Lee and others and now both the Jefferson, Washington and other memorial in our nation’s capital.

If you want to get rid of all of these monuments that have been erected to people and events in our nation’s past, tied to the Civil War, which you find horribly, horribly offensive and you want to get rid of all vestiges, then maybe it’s time to ALSO disband the Democrat Party PERIOD!!!!!!

While those on the left find all these Confederate statues offensive I find THEM and their stupidity offensive. At some point, as President Trump said, "who's next?" George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? James Madison? I mention those names because they were part of the Founding Fathers who led America to Independence from British Tyranny. But as a footnote of history, 41 out of the 56 original signers of the Declaration of , including Washington and Jefferson, owned slaves.

Slavery was evil yes, but it was the law of the land up until Lincoln. Abortion, or the killing of innocent babies, is also evil but it's also the law of the land – something upheld in reverence in a demonic fashion by most if not all Democrats. Their 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton didn’t see anything remotely wrong whatsoever with the slaughter of a baby even at the 9th month. A party or any individual that embraces such demonic thinking is a person and party of death and evil.

And since these same Democrats and many liberals screamed there was no moral equivalency between those on the left perpetrating violence compared to the right in Charlottesville, let me make a moral equivalence statement of my own!

I FIND THE KILLING OF BABIES FAR MORE OFFENSIVE THAN A FEW STATUES OF THOSE WHO THE LEFT HAS IN THEIR SELECTIVE MORAL OUTRAGE HAS DEEMED RACIST.

I submit to you that the heroes of the left are MURDERERS. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood provided abortions with the express purpose of wiping out the Negro race, but that too has been for the most part hidden in the closet. Her statue sits untouched by graffiti or defacing in any way – wow, isn’t that rich too. I ponder what the Democrats would do if we started a petition to get rid of THAT statue?

This unhinged irrationality of the left has the full-fledged support of the American media, which remains the most wicked organizing power today that projects the power of the American and the worldwide liberal movement. It’s a dangerous threat to our democracy and national security at the very least. George Orwell said it best when it said whenever a society drifts from the truth it begins to persecute those who speak it. In contrast that same society that rejects truth usually embraces and protects those who lie and distort history. Such is the case today.

Removing every statue in the world will never change one iota of history nor will it erase the racism in the hearts of men – including the nation of America.

Mark it down though. The Democrats always over reach in situations like this and they will do the same here. When they get thumped again in 2018 for worrying more about statues than people's lives, NONE OF WHICH are being affected by shoving statues in closets, then they will realize once again WE THE PEOPLE see what you're doing and we find YOU offensive, not a dead statue of Robert E. Lee or any other statue.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Let’s just make sure the history we seek to learn from does not get shoved in a closet. It’s what makes us the nation we are. It’s what makes us AMERICA, the land I love and pray for as we write this with tears. God bless this land and remove the stain of hatred from our hearts and soul. Only He can do that because we’re not made of wood and stone like those statues. We are a nation of souls, uniquely put together to be a bastion of freedom to a world which sits in tyranny and oppression in many areas. If we don't come to our senses however we will cease to be that bastion. Instead, we will destroy ourselves from within and when history writes its sad epitaph on how we did just that how tragic will it be when it reads- "they died fighting over stone."
 

Christopher McDonald, Publisher, Editor in Charge

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