The New York Analysis of Policy and Government takes a two part look at the hidden motives surrounding the protests over Confederate statues.
Are Confederate monuments the real target of the recent protests, or is there something vastly more far-reaching involved?
It’s easy to understand the passion by some against the existence of statues to figures such as Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis. But it is becoming increasingly clear that a much larger goal is at stake, one that has nothing to do with revulsion over the horrible existence of slavery in Americas’, and the worlds’, past.
Less publicized than the campaign against southern Civil War figures is the progressive drive to remove the words and remembrances of the nation’s founding fathers, men such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison from the public square. Don’t be surprised when Jesus and Moses join the list of potential outcasts. Lincoln, the “Great Emancipator” himself, is on the list, as well.
Tabitha Sawyer, writing in The Tab, discusses how Mya Berry has started a petition asking for the renaming of her high school, James Madison Memorial High, on the basis that James Madison himself owned slaves. Madison is considered the father of the U.S. Constitution.
A National Review article describes how Al Sharpton, a figure who has made his living and career by encouraging racial animosity, has advocated defunding the much-beloved memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington.
A monument to Lincoln was torched in Chicago as this article was being prepared. Doug Ernst, writing for the Washington times describes how the act was actually applauded on Facebook. The Washington Times describes Chicago Bishop James E. Dukes’ demand: “Please read my letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and The Chicago Park District,’ Mr. Dukes wrote on Facebook Tuesday night. ‘I’m calling on them to change the names of Washington and Jackson Park. Slave owners do not deserve the honor of our children playing in parks named after them.” Frighteningly, Dukes Facebook post received a number of ‘likes.”
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Manisha Sinha, the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, describes in the Washington Post how author Fred Kaplan discusses, in his view, “Lincoln’s shortcomings and his allegedly unchanging conservatism on slavery and race…places Lincoln not at the head of a great anti-slavery movement but as a lifelong proponent of a lily-white America.”
Conspicuously absent from the list of alleged villains are icons of the left, including the slavery-condoning practices of radical Islam and the racism of progressive idols such as Margaret Sanger.
Writing in the Washington Examiner, Nicole Russell notes: “Protesters and counter-protesters from two extremist groups on the Left and Right collided this weekend in Charlottesville, Va. Now, one side is calling on the other to tear down all symbols of white supremacy. If we’re going to obliterate our nation’s controversial history, ridding it of the pockmarks and scars of its racist ways, shouldn’t we, you know, treat all white supremacy efforts with the same disdain? I’d hate to obliterate historical Confederate symbols and gloss over Planned Parenthood, whose founder, Margaret Sanger, was an avid eugenicist and racist. In The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger called African-Americans and immigrants “human weeds [and] reckless breeders, spawning… human beings who never should have been born.” In Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, author David Kennedy wrote that in a 1923 speech, Sanger said couples who chose sterilization for the purpose of racial “purification” should be rewarded. One of Sanger’s more infamous quotes is her admittance that she wants to “exterminate the Negro population.”
The reason for the selective outrage is clear.
The real goal is not anger at men like Jefferson, Washington, and Madison, who, despite their monumental achievements in advancing human freedom, failed to overcome the biases of their time and region. It’s the overall concepts—individual liberty, human dignity, American independence, and constitutionally guaranteed rights (despite, in some cases, their awful blind-spots about racism) that they played so great a part in achieving.
The Report Concludes Tomorrow.