Statues for Lee, Jeff Davis, and the Confederacy were and are affirmations of slavery, white supremacy, racism, and Jim Crow, and few of today's whites are actually for any of those things.
But Trump, people on his side about those statues, and many of those on the other side, all said it was not really just about the Confederacy but about the whole history of the US, and of whites in America.
Some of them, like Pat Buchanan himself, tried to make the defense of the worst crimes of white racism and the defense of white America per se, and even of Western Civilization, the same cause.
They were wrong.
But not this time.
Statues to Columbus really are celebrations of the white peopling of the Americas and the rise of the greatest of the white settler states of the Western Hemisphere, the United States of America, itself.
You're not going to find a lot of white Americans - or others, if they are honest - who think the world would have been a better place had white America not happened, however ugly sometimes was the way it happened.
You're not going to find a lot of white Americans willing to agree the very existence of white America is and should be something calling for public shame.
Just how easy do the Dems want to make it for others to tar them as the party of nonwhites who hate whites and all their works, as Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter have been doing for years?
How far do they want to publicly make the old Zinnite cheer their motto, "Hey, hey; ho, ho. Western Civ has got to go"?
Emotionally satisfying for some Democrats, mostly nonwhites, I am sure.
But not actually faithful to the views of most Democrats, I am equally sure.
And politically it is just sooo not wise for Democrats to affirm old Jeremiah Wright's fervent cry, "God damn America!"
The white nationalist right has been defending Columbus and the white peopling of America for some years.
Trump Embraces the Culture War
No comments:
Post a Comment