This nation will never be clean.

The stain is embedded in the fabric. 

Methinks me must agree with the losers on this:  tearing down Confederate monuments is not the right/smart move.

What about Stone Mountain?  Gonna blast the face of that rock?  Might as well do Mount Rushmore, too.  The crimes against humanity are basically kinda sorta the same.  {Matthew 16:26}

This country refuses to reckon the fact of its history, and would rather just ignore or disregard or forget how, exactly, we (the collective US we) actually got here.

Back in the dim dark days of, what, a decade ago?  Some woke folks started thinking, Hey, maybe we shouldn’t have statues and memorials commemorating the losers club, yathink?  Maybe that stuff should go away.  

Not We should educate successive generations on the truth of American history.

Not We should possibly engage in a national discussion of past crimes and ongoing harms.

Not We should reconsider who and what and where and how we, as a nation, got here and seem to remain in the same place, based on complexion and texture, for the last, oh say, 400+ years.

No, not that.  But rather, Let’s demolish some concrete and stone and see?  All better now.

Nope, gotta say … wrong move.

In other news … Texas (keep on winning, Lone Star) threw an 11-year-old boy into solitary confinement.  ‘Cuz reasons.

And GuvGreg signed legislation to imprison migrants entering the state illegally.  Yah, that works. 
Why not just keep bussing to the blue states?  After all, methinks California will give illegal (whoops – “non-legal”) residents the right to vote and drive, so dropping ‘em off in democratically-controlled states can’t do anything but help the base.

Race to the bottom, people.  Race to the bottom.

And let us not forget:  to the First Nations, we’re all illegals.
Now there’s a debt that will never be paid, casinos notwithstanding.

Read a statistic somewhere that when the plague hit the eastern shores, there were an estimated 2M people living in what would become the US.  Less than 100 years later, those numbers had been culled by 80 percent.

Sheesh.  Guns, germs and steel, indeed.