Very moving article that has nothing to do with Zihuatanejo

Oh, just erase history that’ll solve all the problems. The statue removal of historical figures is just stupid and wrong. I’m not defending the confederacy but it’s part of American history. Not thinking that this would happen in Mexico with its historical figures that are now not popular with a certain political persuasion. I don’t quite understand why you posted this article link on this site how does it relate to Mexico? Is there a movement in Mexico to rewrite history too? Oh that’s right he said it didn’t have anything to do with Mexico, so why post it in the first place?

As a Southerner and kin to some of the personalities depicted by those statues, I find the article extremely relevant and right on. My ancester Gen. Lee made it known that he never wanted statues erected to him after the fall of the South, and I can't imagine my other ancestor President Jefferson Davis would've been too hot on the idea either. You don't idolize traitors and losers. Of course, today's cult followers will disagree.

To date, I'm only aware of one statue removed erroneously due to over-emotional undereducated fervor: the Castleman Statue that used to stand in my childhood neighborhood of Cherokee Triangle in the Highlands of Louisville at the intersection of Cherokee Parkway and Cherokee Rd. Though he served in the Confederacy, he redeemed himself later fighting for the Union, particularly in Cuba (oops, another one of those U.S. wars based on lies) and in his contributions to Louisville including for integration way before its time. The statue depicted him on a famous horse he owned wearing civilian garb, and the statue was intended to honor the horse. But the fanatics defiled it, threw paint on it, and clamored stubbornly for its removal ignoring any facts simply because some idiot included it in the Registry of Confederate Monuments or some such nonsense, something it wasn't. Louisville was a border region where families were divided, and many Louisvillians were quite progressive for the day, as they still are, something difficult to understand for folks not from the region.

Mexicans clamored for years to remove the statue in Mexico City depicting the monster Cristóbal Colón and to stop recognizing him as anything but a lost traveler, a cruel human being and a wannabe emperor. Of course the Spaniards and their "pureblood" descendants got bent out of shape over it, but fuggem. We now observe Día de la Raza in Mexico, but not Día de Cristóbal Colón.

Well, the powers that be could simply remove his post. But that would be stupid, and wrong.

Now, how did I know that Nicanit would be the first to respond?

Oh, just erase history that’ll solve all the problems. The statue removal of historical figures is just stupid and wrong. I’m not defending the confederacy but it’s part of American history. Not thinking that this would happen in Mexico with its historical figures that are now not popular with a certain political persuasion. I don’t quite understand why you posted this article link on this site how does it relate to Mexico? Is there a movement in Mexico to rewrite history too? Oh that’s right he said it didn’t have anything to do with Mexico, so why post it in the first place?

Do you endorse statues in the US to Benedict Arnold? John Wilkes Booth? Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg? Lee Harvey Oswald? Sirhan Sirhan? They are all “part of American history”.

Next you’ll be suggesting a statue of the failed former president.

Oh, just erase history that’ll solve all the problems. The statue removal of historical figures is just stupid and wrong. I’m not defending the confederacy but it’s part of American history.

Those who support removing the statues aren't trying to erase history. That is a myth promulgated to keep the Right Wing Outrage Machine profitably well oiled and operating at peak efficiency. On the contrary, it is those who defend the keeping of the statues who are doing their best to rewrite history. Case in point is the attempt by the State of Florida to introduce into the public school curriculum absolute twaddle about how slaves were treated well and taught marketable skills. If there is anyone in our Happy Little Zihua Family who actually believes that slaves were treated well, trundle on down to your local library and ask them to locate a copy of "To Make Them Stand in Fear: The Slaveowning South." (There are some elements of it available online but it is still under copyright.)

One such horrible -- and for many years, successful -- attempt to rewrite the history of slavery and the Civil War is going to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery soon. The monument depicts a slave tearfully holding the baby of a Confederate slaveholder so that he can kiss his baby before going off to war.

Confederate Memorial at Arlington will be removed despite GOP opposition

Note: Link is good for 30 days from date of post

Since the Civil War, the Southern Dixiecrats, with mostly tacit approval from the Democratic party leadership, were those who kept the Jim Crow laws and white supremacy culture in place. (FDR had to do his best to keep his wife from being photographed with Blacks.) "Tricky Dick" Nixon and his lieutenants Patrick Buchanan and Lee Atwater recognized an opportunity to swing the pendulum when the dreaded LIBERALS rose to power in the Democratic Party and aligned themselves with the Civil Rights movement. Since then, Republicans have skillfully and successfully using racism as a bludgeon against the Democrats while still being able to deny any such tactic. After decades, the kindling was plentiful and Trump came along and lit the fire.

During the Cold War, the Soviets quickly realized that they would never be able to defeat the United States militarily. They understood that the United States could only be defeated from within. They rightly surmised that the key to this would be our original sins of slavery and racism. However, their ham-fisted attempts to gin up race wars through their media outlets of Tass and Pravda were laughable. As hard as it may be to believe, as Martin Luther King, Jr., was fending off accusations of being a Communist from within the States, the Soviets were rooting for his failure as they saw his movement as potentially healing the racial divide.

Vladimir Lenin is reported to have said that the West would supply the rope with which we will hang them. Fast forward to the 21st Century and Vladimir Putin used and continues to use the Western-built Internet to do what the Soviets could not accomplish, namely to stoke the racial divide that is tearing the United States apart. Putin's Internet Research Agency actively supported Trump in the 2016 election. The rewards for Putin's investment have gone beyond their wildest dreams. As of this writing, the Republicans have stymied further military support for Ukraine. In response, the Russian media congratulated the Republicans. "Well done, Gramps!" they gleefully shouted, referring to Senator Mitch McConnell, aka Moscow Mitch.

Who would have ever thought that Russia and the Republicans would be in bed together? Eisenhauer and Reagan and George Bush the Elder and yes, even Tricky Dick are rolling over in their graves. Fact is always stranger than fiction, Dear Fellow Zihua Lovers.

Respectfully submitted,

Padrino

P.S. And yes, Nicatnit, you are correct in that the Confederacy is part of the United States history. However, you are dead wrong when you claim that you are not defending them by insisting these monuments to betrayal, treachery, insurrection, and yes, slavery be allowed to stand.