What the Minneapolis Riots Mean — No More Concessions

Jared Taylor, American Renaissance. Race realist. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbjg50l-JnE&feature=youtu.beJared Taylor of American Renaissance explains that they are a part of a problem that cannot be solved by yet more concessions.

Cancel the White Men and What’s Left? by Pat Buchanan – June 17, 2020 https://buchanan.org/blog/cancel-the-white-men-and-whats-left-138693

Liberals will fight for the right of Marxist radicals to burn the American flag to show their hatred of it but cannot tolerate working folks flying the battle flag of the Confederacy to show their love of it.

“Can we all just get along?”

That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway. King’s plea came after the 1992 LA riots, the worst since the New York City draft riots in 1863 when Lincoln had to send in federal troops.

In the aftermath of today’s protests and riots after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we hear similar calls. President Donald Trump must “reach out” and “unify the nation.”

But how?

Many of these calls for unity come from the same elites who are all-in on tearing us apart by pulling down statues of the famous men of American history whom they most detest.

A second war on the Confederacy is underway, to disgrace and dishonor all who fought for Southern independence in the war of 1861-65. A second Reconstruction is being readied.

The St. Andrew’s Cross, the battle flag of the Confederate army, though seen as a banner of heroism and honor to millions, is henceforth to be treated like the Nazi swastika. It has been already been banned at Nascar races, where it has been widely popular.

Liberals will fight for the right of Marxist radicals to burn the American flag to show their hatred of it but cannot tolerate working folks flying the battle flag of the Confederacy to show their love of it.

A second front in the campaign to cancel history is the renaming of U.S. army bases in Southern states that bear the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning and Bragg. Trump has pledged to veto any defense appropriation bill that contains such a provision.

Third is the drive led by Nancy Pelosi and her allies to remove statues in the Capitol of any of those men of “violent bigotry” who were connected to the Confederacy.

First among them is General Robert E. Lee.

Gen. David Petraeus has put succinctly the crime of which Lee is guilty. Though “West Point honors Robert E. Lee with a gate, a road, an entire housing area, and a barracks,” writes Petraeus, “Lee… committed treason.”

The goal here is to impose the one-sided view of American history that is now ascendant, as official truth — that the cause of Southern secession was unlike the cause of American secession from Britain. It was an act of treason rooted in the ideology of white supremacy.

To have that sole acceptable view predominate, our elites believe they must remove from public display the statues of any associated with the cause of Southern independence and stigmatize them all as traitors.

They have, however, a problem: Where do the elites stop when the radicals demand more?

If support of slavery disqualifies one from the company of decent men, does it disqualify George Washington, who owned slaves his entire life? What Washington fought for, independence, was what Lee fought for.

Lee did not challenge Lincoln’s election. He did not seek to overthrow the government Lincoln headed. He resigned from the U.S. army to go home and defend the people among whom he had been raised from an invasion to force-march them back into a Union the state’s chosen rulers had voted to leave.

Not only does our national capital, Washington, bear the name of a lifelong slave owner, so does the capital of Missouri, Jefferson City. So does the capital of Mississippi, Jackson. So does the capital of Wisconsin, Madison. The capital of Ohio is Columbus. The capital of South Carolina is Columbia. Both are named for now-vilified Christopher Columbus whose statue still stands outside D.C.’s Union Station.

None of these men appears, from how they lived their lives, to have shared modernity’s belief in democracy, diversity or social equality. Yet, it was they who cobbled together the United States of America.

Washington led us to independence and ownership of all the land from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the U.S. Andrew Jackson added Florida. James K. Polk added the Southwest and California. Slave owner Sam Houston won Texas’ War of independence and brought his Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845.

Two of the three greatest Senate statesmen of the 19th century, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun of South Carolina, were slave owners. Both have statues in the Capitol. Do they go, too?

The newest bridge over the Potomac, like the premier dam in the TVA, is named for Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the government.

These were among the decisive figures of American history. If all are dishonored, with their statues pulled down and their names taken off cities, counties, towns, rivers, canals, bridges, buildings, highways, roads, streets and dams, then what is left?

Detest all those white men if you will, but they were the ones who created the nation we inherited.

Rex Murphy: Canada is not a racist country, despite what the Liberals say

To any fair mind, Canada is a mature, welcoming, open-minded and generous country. It would be helpful if these Liberals kept the full story of this country in mind when discussing racism

Rex Murphy

June 1, 2020
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Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna recently retweeted a lovely picture of her and four other ministers taking part in a “social distanced kayaking” excursion in Ottawa.

“Nothing beats enjoying some time on the water with my colleagues,” McKenna tweeted. It’s hard to argue. It sure beats spending time in Parliament during the COVID-19 and long-term care crises.

But it wasn’t the kayaking picture that originally caught my attention, it was another of the former environment minister’s endless Twitter bulletins, commenting on the protests and riots (they are both, and lately mainly the latter) now sweeping across the United States.

“Right now, thousands — if not millions — are marching, fighting and protesting for their basic human rights. We need to acknowledge that racism and discrimination are a part of our reality here in Canada and around the world and we all need to call it out. We have to do better,” wrote McKenna, before a similar demonstration took place in Montreal on Sunday.

What’s going on in the U.S. right now may have begun, for some, as a protest in support of basic human rights. But however it began, it has now morphed into scenes of pure violence, random attacks, arson and something close to actual anarchy. It would have been good of the minister to have acknowledged the very troubling mixed nature of the events. Yes, some people are engaging in legitimate protest, as is their right. But many of them have engaged in looting, mayhem, destruction of property, threats, arson and deliberate confrontations with police.

Looking through news and social media reports online, on can easily find scenes of individuals being furiously beaten by some of the mob, a police precinct abandoned to flames, a small store destroyed right in front of its owner and the attempted arson of the historic St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. St. John’s is a revered institution, because every U.S. president since James Madison has attended services there. I’m not sure how attempting to burn down a church, which is also a national symbol, figures under the banner “of protesting for human rights.”

The second part of McKenna’s tweet  —  “We need to acknowledge that racism and discrimination are a part of our reality here in Canada and around the world and we all need to call it out” — was more troubling to me, because it was yet another example of a Liberal leveraging a situation happening somewhere else to create an opportunity to lecture Canadians.

In dissecting her statement, it would be helpful to have some more details. How much are racism and discrimination actually “a part of Canadian reality”? Are they overwhelmingly present? Are they, in McKenna’s view, a central part of Canadian life? Where do they manifest themselves? Are some provinces more racist and discriminatory than others? If any of the answers to these questions is “yes,” then we have far bigger problems than COVID-19.

Another question: is it only those in the higher echelons of the Liberal party who have a clear view of all this racism and discrimination? Indeed, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken in much the same terms.

“Many Canadians of diverse backgrounds are watching, like all Canadians are, the news out of the United States, with shock and with horror,” he said on Friday.

I can agree with most of that (though I don’t know why he made a distinction between “Canadians of diverse backgrounds” and “all Canadians,” since there are not two sets of us). But he then proceeded, as Mckenna did, into a lofty declaration of virtuous moralism, saying that, “Anti-black racism, racism is real. It’s in the United States, but it’s also in Canada.” On one level, there is nothing to dispute here. No society is without bigotry — none. But how big a problem is it here in Canada? That’s the question.

Most Canadians, the vast majority in fact, are horrified by racism and would never participate in it. We are in fact not a racist country, though to say so may shock some.

Do we not have welcoming immigration policies? Are our largest cities not a great montage of people from every corner of the world, of every colour and creed? Do we not, both in private and public, celebrate Canada’s multicultural nature? Do our schools not press the ideas of tolerance and acceptance toward all peoples and all faiths from kindergarten through high school? Is it not a doctrine of Canadian civic life that to end any trace of discrimination or racism is a cardinal rationale for the very existence of modern Canada.

In fact, to give Canada credit, it has for decades now worked in every venue — from corporations, to the public service, to the arts and universities — to set goals and standards designed to eliminate pernicious bigotries. It is therefore strange that after so much honest effort, so many advances in public thought and practice, so great a march from those times past when racism and bigotry were indeed rife and accepted, that an inventory of how far we have come is never taken; that the advances remain unacknowledged or unspoken; and that citizens hear so often from their betters how “racist and discriminatory” they are.

To any fair mind, Canada is a mature, welcoming, open-minded and generous country. It would be helpful if these Liberals kept the full story of this country in mind when discussing racism, and not leap so reflexively to grim characterizations of a country that, while not perfect, has been doing its best to be tolerant and welcoming.

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What the Minneapolis Riots Mean: No More Concessions! Jared Taylor, American Renaissance. Race realist. – https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nbjg50l-JnE&feature=youtu.beJared Taylor of American Renaissance explains that they are a part of a problem that cannot be solved by yet more concessions.