As
the movement to erase our past continues across the land
Toppling
and defacing statues with protests getting out of hand
Easy
to remove statues honoring men who for whatever was their reason
Stayed
loyal to their states and against the nation took up arms which is treason
Much
less defensible when in a time past when many Americans owned slaves
To
deface or tear down statues of men who valiant service to the nation gave
Where
would we be if Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, and Roosevelt had not
answered the call?
More
likely than not as nation far far younger without a Constitution and prosperity
to have been stalled
The
past is not the realm of men and women exclusively in their lives only saints
In
hindsight today acts like owning slaves or war against Indians to their
standing today taints
But
to airbrush them out of history or physical evidence of their existence erase
We
forfeit the chance to learn mistakes and the means to issues that plague us
like racism to erase
If
we are not to have empty pedestals or holes in the ground what statues should
we use to replace?
Given
the overwhelming black children born out of wedlock and raised in single parent
homes
Condemning
such children to end up more likely in the poverty or criminal zone
My
choice would be outside of any urban park entrance
A
black father and mother holding hands with child or children as to the park
they advance
A
great tragedy that Black Lives Matter and the left totally ignores
Is
that for children born out of wedlock and/or a with the father MIA, poverty and
crime through the roof soars
© July 3,
2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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