Of America enduring
In his August 15 speech on Charlottesville, President Trump lamented liberals' mania for historical revisionism. Referencing the demolition of statues and memorials, he asked: "Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is it George Washington, next?"
A number of mainstream commentators ridiculed Trump's warning. His sentiment was validated, though, in October. The governing council of Alexandria's Christ Church voted unanimously to remove a plaque honoring original church member/patron Washington.
Now, the California chapter of the NAACP is calling for that state's legislature to replace the national anthem. Chapter president Alice Huffman has said a phrase in the song's seldom sung third verse does not represent all Americans.
Huffman told a local interviewer she was inspired to review the national anthem by Colin Kaepernick and other professional football players' 'take a knee' anthem protests. Her NAACP chapter has also called for the U.S. Congress to officially censure President Trump for his criticism of those protests.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/07/naacp-national-anthem-racist/
Statue demolitions. Plaque removals. Building and scholarship renamings. American borders erasure. Slurring of national sovereignty advocates as "bigots." National anthem protests and pressure for the song's abandonment.
Plainly, President Trump's August words carried an important truth about looming anti-Americanism. His critics were either oblivious to that specter or, perhaps, in secret sympathy with it.
Citizens disagree about much, and liberty allows us to state our passions in the streets as well as in voting booths. But national icons, laws, and culture unify us. We are one country, one people.
There is much more that unites us than divides us from one another.
President Trump appeals to that national sense of shared identity, ideals, purpose, and, yes, exceptionalism. His 2016 victory and its remarkable significance for "the forgotten man" -- and effective assertion of robust American resolve -- quite overshadow minor-scale seditious irritants.
In his August 15 speech on Charlottesville, President Trump lamented liberals' mania for historical revisionism. Referencing the demolition of statues and memorials, he asked: "Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is it George Washington, next?"
A number of mainstream commentators ridiculed Trump's warning. His sentiment was validated, though, in October. The governing council of Alexandria's Christ Church voted unanimously to remove a plaque honoring original church member/patron Washington.
Now, the California chapter of the NAACP is calling for that state's legislature to replace the national anthem. Chapter president Alice Huffman has said a phrase in the song's seldom sung third verse does not represent all Americans.
Huffman told a local interviewer she was inspired to review the national anthem by Colin Kaepernick and other professional football players' 'take a knee' anthem protests. Her NAACP chapter has also called for the U.S. Congress to officially censure President Trump for his criticism of those protests.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/11/07/naacp-national-anthem-racist/
Statue demolitions. Plaque removals. Building and scholarship renamings. American borders erasure. Slurring of national sovereignty advocates as "bigots." National anthem protests and pressure for the song's abandonment.
Plainly, President Trump's August words carried an important truth about looming anti-Americanism. His critics were either oblivious to that specter or, perhaps, in secret sympathy with it.
Citizens disagree about much, and liberty allows us to state our passions in the streets as well as in voting booths. But national icons, laws, and culture unify us. We are one country, one people.
There is much more that unites us than divides us from one another.
President Trump appeals to that national sense of shared identity, ideals, purpose, and, yes, exceptionalism. His 2016 victory and its remarkable significance for "the forgotten man" -- and effective assertion of robust American resolve -- quite overshadow minor-scale seditious irritants.
posted by DC Larson at
November 09, 2017
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