Education and the Pursuit of Ignorance
Apparently, for some "peaceful protesters," the irony of their profound educated ignorance knows no limits. As Peter Heck notes at Discern, "Exactly 123 years to the day that it was dedicated, the Shaw Memorial, a monument honoring the first all-volunteer black regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, was defaced by rioters demanding justice for African- Americans." Heck recounts, "One of the soldiers of that regiment, Sgt. William Harvey Carney, carried the American flag throughout the battle, never dropping it despite being shot 7 times. Carney was the first black American to [receive] the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in that action."
Today, I saw the headlines in the Atlantic City Press featuring Christopher Columbus’ Statue being removed to cheering crowds. Unless you have been travelling other planets in our solar system, we have seen monuments to George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Francis Scott Key all toppled by rioting crowds practicing what they contend is their “right to peaceful protest”. Even statues and monuments of Abraham Lincoln were defaced and torn down and the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park was defaced. The Confederate Flag has been removed by some southern states and NASCAR banned its use at their racing events. It has now become fashionable for young athletes to kneel while our Flag is celebrated, and our National Anthem is being played.
This is all being done by the so-called peaceful protesters in the name of “justice for blacks”. And these self-appointed guardians of history are for the most part college-aged students who are wholly uneducated in American History, lack even a rudimentary knowledge of economics and have no sense of what it means to live as citizens in the last bastion of freedom in the world, the United States of America.
What they do possess is a finely tuned, ingrained set of opinions about all things wrongs about America and how it is an imperialist nation who uses its military power to inflict pain and suffering across the globe! They have no facts to support these opinions mind you, but their liberal professors in academia have been inundating their young minds for the last five decades! Don’t believe this? Try these little exercises:
Ask a young student today to tell you about the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution and what they represent.
Ask them which political party sponsored and voted to support these Amendments.
Ask them to name the signatories to the Declaration of Independence.
Ask them to briefly explain how a bill becomes a law.
My guess is that you would be hard pressed to find students today capable of answering such basic questions.
Then ask them the significance of these names: Belleau Wood, the Argonne, Chosin Reservoir, Guadalcanal, Pelilieu, Huế.
I doubt you would be able to find one student capable of answering correctly.
Ask them to explain why after 155 years since the end of the Civil War they are now protesting the people who fought in it, and to explain what possible good could come from defacing the graves and
memorials of Confederate Officers and soldiers whom Congress declared are soldiers of the United States entitled to full military honors?
Finally, if their protests are to raise awareness about the injustice of slavery, which has been abolished in the United States, why would the Shaw Memorial, mentioned earlier, be a target of protesters?
Why would monuments to Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key or Christopher Columbus draw their ire? Didn’t Lincoln write the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves and didn’t General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the Confederacy and wreak havoc on the KKK in South Carolina? And what, pray tell, were the offenses of Christopher Columbus (who discovered America) and Francis Scott Key (who wrote the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner, our National Anthem)?
Professors in academia today are, in the main, extremely liberal. Many are the offspring of the “Peacenik Generation” of the late 1960’s who grew up participating in protests and watching news reports of demonstrations against the War in Vietnam. They spent their time burning their draft cards, fleeing military service to Canada. They never missed an opportunity to denigrate the United States or to burn American Flags. They cheered and praised the black athletes who stood on the winners podium of the 1968 Olympic Games raising their fists in protest instead of honoring the Flag of the country who gave them the opportunity to compete on an international scale.
But today, they have taken “peaceful protesting” to a new level. Today, protesters believe that it is their right and duty to destroy businesses and private property, loot and steal, burn churches and police cars and attack police officers with baseball bats and clubs. Their approach to forcibly removing statues, defacing monuments, defiling and defacing American Flags, blocking roads, burning churches is not about slavery and injustices for blacks as much as it is about erasing our history and replacing it with revisionist history….history the way they wish it were.
It is a classic fascist, socialist and communist approach used throughout history by tyrannical madmen like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao Zedong, and we have watched entire nations collapse under their rule.
Today, our youth are being indoctrinated, not educated, and they are being sold socialism by their teachers and professors. I bet not one of these professors or students can identify where these economic systems have succeeded in the long history of the world.
George Santayana wrote “those who ignore the lessons of history are condemned to repeat it” You cannot erase history. You can only remember it and learn from it so that the mistakes of the past are never repeated. Sir Winston Churchill amplified that by saying “a nation that forgets its past, has no future.”
Well, we are a nation now celebrating our 244th year. It is important to recall that there are cultures and civilizations thousands of years old that have not achieved what we have in our very short life span.
We were born in a long, arduous struggle, emerging victorious against the largest, best-trained military in the world, England’s. We pioneered the West, built railroads, developed shipping and commerce, created cities, erected buildings, discovered cures for diseases and created the finest medical system known to man. We developed flight, explored space, put men on the moon and probed the outer limits of our solar system. We saved Europe, twice in the 20th century. Under the Marshall Plan, we rebuilt the economy of Europe and then rebuilt Japan from the devastation of WWII. And, in the last three and one-half years we have developed, nurtured and expanded the greatest and most productive economy the world has ever seen. We have accumulated wealth and a standard of living that is the envy of the world.
Millions of people from around the globe seek to come here every year if only for a glimpse of the Lady in the Harbor! No other nation on earth has earned more Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Science, Technology and Literature than the United States of America. It’s not even close.
These, and other accomplishments are the achievements that should be studied, appreciated and remembered. Ours is a history of sacrifice, discovery, innovation and accomplishment which has benefited all of mankind as well as Americans.
Stop the ignorance. Become educated, not indoctrinated. Value your nation’s history.
Into your hands has been entrusted the destiny of the nation.
Be worthy of it..
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