It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing. Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites, says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator.
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” explained first-grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee.
Specifically, Mr. Lincoln ran afoul of the criterion involving treatment of Native Americans, the committee said.
Others slated for the memory hole include George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, both Roosevelts, Francis Scott Key, James Garfield, William McKinley, James Monroe, John Muir, Junipero Serra and even Dianne Feinstein, whose sin was to replace a vandalized Confederate flag in a historic display of 18 flags in front of City Hall when she was mayor back in the 1980s.
Confederate statue protestYou just can’t be too “woke” at a time when Marxists are toppling statues and demanding race-based reparations and Mao-style reeducation sessions.
On Dec. 12, after a daytime Trump rally, some idiots with the Proud Boys tore down a Black Lives Matter banner at D.C.’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church and at Asbury United Methodist Church, setting at least one on fire.
Not one to let a crisis go to waste, the AMEC church’s pastor, William H. Lamar IV, who is steeped in black liberation theology, took to the Washington Post last Wednesday to bash America, and white Americans in particular.
“The myth of the American imperium is deeply rooted in falsehoods and forgetfulness,” he wrote in a piece entitled, “Will America finally abandon its racist myth?”
The Post placed it in the middle three columns at the top of its op-ed page, under a photo of a self-hating “woke” apparently White woman wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt and holding a sign saying “White Supremacy Will be Defeated.”
Mr. Lamar went on, “Liberty was not the founding American impulse; genocide was. The blessing of God did not secure this nation’s prosperity. The forced labor of my ancestors did.” For a man of the cloth to shove God to the back seat of history takes a special kind of chutzpah.
His screed was right out of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, designed by Marxists to teach Americans to despise their own country and yearn for a socialist utopia in which White people apparently either disappear or are treated like India’s Untouchables.
Ripping down and destroying banners on private property is a noxious crime for which the perps should face appropriate punishment. But that’s not enough for Mr. Lamar, who indicts all Americans.
“The mythology that motivated the perpetrators was the underbelly of the American narrative – that White men can employ violence to take what they want and do what they want and call that criminality justice, freedom and liberty,” he wrote.
It’s a shame that Mr. Lamar’s church lost its BLM banner, but it appears he didn’t lose any sleep over the earlier burning of the church across from the White House by leftist demonstrators or the months of race riots that claimed mostly black victims.
After George Floyd’s death in May, violence erupted in dozens of cities, costing at least 30 lives, injuring hundreds of police officers, destroying thousands of businesses in minority neighborhoods and causing billions in property damage. Rioters burned American flags, beat shop owners, looted stores and committed hundreds of arsons.
It didn’t fit the prevailing media narrative that only White suburbanites are capable of evil deeds.
All over the spectrum, things are getting nuttier in the name of wokeness. Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team, which jettisoned its goofy Chief Wahoo mascot in 2019, is deep-sixing “Indians,” which this team has proudly sported since 1915.
No new name has been announced, but officials said the 2021 team would be “non-Native American.” Who knew that rooting for a team and admiring its players could be construed as hating their namesakes? That would certainly be news to fans of the Braves, the Fighting Irish, the Vikings and the Cowboys.
Cleveland is following in the moccasins of the National Football League team formerly known as the Washington Redskins. This year, the club didn’t bother adopting a new moniker and is simply playing as The Washington Football Team. As a longtime fan, I’m thankful that owner Dan Snyder has reportedly dismissed out of hand renaming his team the Swamp Rats and is holding out for something more uplifting.
But getting back to Cleveland, the Christian satirical site Babylon Bee summarized the situation this way:
“Due to mounting pressure from a growing consensus of 12 people on Twitter and The New York Times, the Cleveland Indians have finally chosen to change their team’s name. … [T]he owners finally settled on the highly non-offensive title ‘Cleveland Genderless Sports Players With No Discernable Racial Features Or Specific Ethnic Background.'” Yay, team!
If Cleveland fans think this will get them out of trouble, they had better think again. Their NFL team is still named the Browns.
Robert Knight is a OneNewsNow contributor. His latest book is “The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens If the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government”. This column ran originally in The Washington Times.
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The ‘woke” who are haters of our Country, can get the you know what out of our Country. Communists!
“Will America finally abandon its racist myth?”,,,The myth that refutes the fact that the poorest American black living in America is 10 times better off than any living on the dark African Continent excepting the black ruling classes who use other blacks like good Democrats, to enrich themselves. Don’t see any COVID vaccinations, cell phones, satellites, moon landings, Cancer cures coming from the Sudan lately? Just ungracious can one collective human mind get?,,, Which collectively seeks to divide/destroy the Greatest most successful Social experiment in equality and Democracy, which they design to destroy in social experiments based not on reality, history or any empirical truths, where the end product of equality is the equal distribution of socialist failure and poverty.
If Justice prevailed, the new name for the Washington Redskins, which never should have changed to begin with, should be to call them the Washington WASPs, as the White Anglo Saxon Protestants did more to settle and build the greatness of this Government and country as the default race when others are no longer politically correct. Franky, I think the redskins earned a place at the sports table as well. Just ask Jim Thorpe who woke every day without having to look at the color of his skin before going out and embarrassing others in defeat in fair sports competition.
FINE.. KICK all these woke commies, who HATE this nation, its constitution and its founders, the HELL OUT.. Permanently!
“The blessing of God did not secure this nation’s prosperity. The forced labor of my ancestors did.”
Forced labor built ancient Egypt. I don’t hear anyone griping about that. China uses forced labor today.
Sure. Left to their own devices blacks will always arrive at a global leading civilization with countless innovations to their credit within two hundred years of startup. Any tribal affiliations will melt to a larger Race Unity brotherhood that benefits all equally.
America is the one place where blacks were freed and later chose to rejoin plantation life with the Democrat Party.
Forced labor is a lot less painful or lethal than forced Military conscription, which is why my ancestors came to Illinois from Germany where the men were used by the Kaiser for cannon fodder. They plowed the Illinois fields themselves, and created abundances of wealth that was able to be shared by others in a state where slavery was forbidden since the Northwest Ordinance of 1787which prohibited slavery in states/land north of the Ohio River. We and most other non-slave states outproduced the southern slave holding states by double digits and did it without the help of blacks who did not show up in numbers till after the Civil War, having been freed by our Troops, our crops, our factories and our President who “The land of Lincoln” was named after. If any reparations are due, they are due to me, my family and every White American who fought on the side of the North. The question to be woke about is why have not the American blacks prospered having been granted equality in practice and in law? The answer is they were doing quite well until they embraced the very Democrat party that had previously enslaved them on plantations, which they just substituted inner city ghettos for, with drugs and entitlement payments their first weapon and primary chains of choice.
How DARE you bring up china.. Don’t you know, you can’t criticze our new masters… Ten lashes at the post for you…. ‘)
Due to mounting pressure from a growing consensus of 12 people on Twitter and The New York Times
Exactly…
Only if you adhere to the philosophy that only obummer put more blacks out of work than President Lincoln.
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I have concluded that the Black live matter group and Indians have a Choice in their future, I include the Indians because they too are living in self-made poverty in the reservation.
If all of them keep excepting the freebies and listen to the boss, (politician) they too will always be controlled and will complain of injustice, and lack of education, kept stupid. easily controlled.
The few that have made the decision to go on their own way have made their life’s better and successful, not saying it was easy, but they did it.
Doctors, Lawyers and Professors, science’s, and writhers.. they work hard and made a different world for themselves, did it their way, with the help of the system that is available to all.
The Value of a person is not in the color of one’s skin, but in the Heart and mind of that person and the Choice he or she makes to step out of that being controlled.
Hardheaded
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A Choice is made, and the Consequent is given. A Law is broken, and the punishment is given, sometimes not the right one but again that was a choice made at the time..
At the Time of are History Slaves were bought and sold for workers by Whites and Blacks all round the World, in some Countries the work farms and Tax homes,
as time and the people changed, Freedom was earned or given, and a WAR was fought and Won, and they improved their lifestyle, education and made a choice on their own.
In America We the People still have a choice to do or not to do what we want to do and enjoy the Conquest.
Hardheaded