https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/yes-lincoln-and-the-union-freed-the-slaves/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=top-bar-latest&utm_term=fourth

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/06/25/rioters-fail-to-topple-emancipation-statue-in-washington-dc-n2571380

The statue depicts President Lincoln holding a copy of his Emancipation Proclamation as he symbolically frees a slave, shackled and knelt before him. According to the National Park Service, the funds for the 1876 statue came primarily from freed slaves and African American Union veterans. But today’s leftists have decided that the freed slaves built a racist statue because the slave depicted in the statue is kneeling before the white president, which suggests “black people are inferior to white people,” as one protester told Townhall’s Julio Rosas. So that’s why protesters want police to kneel down before them.

Julio was at the statue on Tuesday when protesters gathered and announced their intentions to vandalize the memorial. A speaker told the angry mob that the memorial was on “stolen land” and warned white people that “we gonna make sure we get what’s owed to us.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2020/06/22/nathan-bedford-forrest-wins-a-rare-victory-over-cancel-culture-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing-n2571009

Further, an 1875 speech to a group of black Southerners got Forrest in trouble with Southern racists at the time, mostly because he dared to kiss a young black woman on the cheek when he accepted a bouquet of flowers from her.

Some quotes from the speech:

– “This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.”

– “I want to elevate you to take positions in law offices, in stores, on farms, and wherever you are capable of going.”

– “I am your friend … We were born on the same soil, breathe the same air, and live in the same land. Why, then, can we not live as brothers? I will say that when the war broke out I felt it my duty to stand by my people. When the time came I did the best I could, and I don’t believe I flickered. I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe that I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to bring about peace.”

– “When I can serve you I will do so. We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment.”

– “Go to work, be industrious, live honestly and act truly, and when you are oppressed I’ll come to your relief.”

Nathan Bedford Forrest, the former Confederate general and alleged Klan leader, said all that in 1875, not 1964. 18-freaking-75. If that’s not an example of someone who’s willing to learn and grow, I don’t know what is.

You can read my intel briefings here or go for David Wilcock’s live streams, if you can tolerate 4-6 hours at a time.

Call it another take on Q. https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2020/06/ymars-post_22.html

Enfeebled institutions like NYT, WaPoop, the corporate media, the universities, the inheritors of civilization (authors, playwrights, artists, museums, libraries) are readily bending the knee. I am sure you have gotten the disgusting, fawning emails from arts groups, cultural organizations, and commercial enterprises bowing before “systemic racism”.

This isn’t about racism. The accusation of racism (flexibly defined) is the wedge to get power. No one would care about the Poetry Foundation if it didn’t have hundreds of million of dollars. Those concerned Poets of Color want to get their hands on the dosh.

It has a historical significance too, in that it is the work of a woman, quite exceptional for the 1890s, and the original statue was financed by public subscription largely raised by women from women. The restored statue, the one which has been toppled, was financed the same way nearly 40 years ago.

I could find many sour inferences to draw from all this but that would be futile because I know the people who read and comment here are not the people I am angry with. How dismaying to learn from Monatge’s comment above that the people who are responsible for this iconoclasm know exactly what they are doing.

But on the other hand sour comments are what we all come to conservtive blogs for, so if anyone cares to go to the well known Althouse blog and scroll down a bit they will find that the local art museum is boarded up, but its trustees have encouraged people to paint on the hoardings. Compare the hideous daubs there with the graceful sculpture of Jean Pond Miner.

Do not for a moment believe the Democrat Party has lost control of the extremist movement it’s using for political gain. That’s all purely theatrical. The extremists need the indulgence of Democrat city and state officials to carry out their campaign of violence.
The Democrat Party serves as the political wing of this violent anti-American movement, but it’s also the wing that calls the shots. Democrats can shut this garbage down any time they want to. Of course, they won’t as long as they’re profiting from it.
I guarantee you will be amazed at how quickly the riots, occupations, and vandalism end if the Democrats get shellacked in November by an angry electorate. If they think voters are holding them responsible for chaos and ruin, or they lose the power to enable it, it will end.
There will be a few theatrical performances where Democrats express mild misgivings about the worst excesses of the vandals, wonder aloud if maybe they’ve gone too far, offer a little sympathy to voters who are recoiling in disgust, act like they don’t control any of this.
This is necessary to keep the voters from seeing through the little Sinn Fein/IRA game the Dems are playing with their mobs. Dems don’t want to be held ACCOUNTABLE or RESPONSIBLE for their dereliction of duty. They can’t be seen loudly rooting for the downfall of America.
Democrat politicians need to act like honest brokers between the mobs and the rest of America, acknowledging the “grievances” of the former and securing “concessions” from the latter. They want to look like peacemakers, interlocutors, bridge-builders.
But never forget, the Democrats ARE 100% in charge of all this. They have tremendous influence over radical leaders who need a “respectable” political wing to achieve their extremist ends. Dem mayors and governors could suddenly start enforcing the law if they wanted to.
When it’s time for the violence and destruction to end, Dems will arrange for the radical leaders to be comfortably taken care of. A new generation of Al Sharptons will roll out in their limousines. They’ll be promised seats at the table of power if they play along.
This is a planned and synchronized political operation. It’s not like the GOP Establishment recoiling from the Tea Party in horror and killing it as fast as possible. Dems are not afraid of populist energy. They wield it like a flaming sword and sheathe it when necessary.

The ladies at the core of the conversion in so many ways, are certainly going to regret it once they see what the future is, and it isn’t them (and there is no one to defend them)… (they are already quite confused over their lack of everything they had)

Nope… The dems are stupid thinking they are…
They are not. they do not serve the dems, the dems will serve them
They are attacking where things are weakest because of beliefs.

Someone is going to eat the dems lunch and the surprise on their face…