Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Former House impeachment manager fires back at John Bolton: He didn't have the courage to testify" video.

  1. Dear Mr Berman and Representative Crow, Thank you JB for another riveting interview with your style of laid-back, but centering-on-the-facts style. Thank you, Representative Crow for your efforts to put things right in a time when America’s political storm is raging. Speaking of taking down statues and re-naming Army bases is of course the topic of the moment. But it is heart-breaking to see night after night, protestors tearing down statues they have no right in doing. 650,000 Americans, your people, fought a war fighting for their beliefs. It is a desecration of their sacrifice to suddenly decide that what they fought for doesn’t matter because those that fought for slavery should now be erased from the history books. Next door to us in France, President Macron, a 40-year-old man with his finger on the pulse of history recently said that no statue, or painting or inscription or whatever will be removed from France. He said something interesting. He said that if we tear down our past, what we are as a people will never know about some of the things we did before that were wrong. We will never learn from our mistakes. I think that to tear down statues of people who owned slaves is making America look like it wants only to have things visible that are perfect. If we used your logic, we would have to tear down The Great Pyramid of Giza, because some sources say slaves were used. What’s wrong with having some things, like General Robert E. Lee, Ike’s favorite general by the way, allowed to stand, but maybe a plaque beside it and other confederate statues that brings people up to date? Don’t lets be ashamed of where we have come from, and black people should have to accept the fact that yes, some of their ancestors were slaves. What’s the big deal? Show me a nation, a people, who are clean as the driven snow. What about the 400 white farmers butchered by South African blacks in 2017? Should we now call black people racist and remove anything that shows a black person in a statue? I think President Macron is someone who understands his job. Please, make them stop disfiguring America's heritage. Peace
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