Has WOKE gone to far - Update

CNN: Reports the following, " White House report accuses Smithsonian leadership of radical ideology "

Let's Get Real:

Has WOKE gone to far, the answer is YES, saw a documentary on Thomas Jefferson on the History Channel, the last half hour was about how he fathered black children with Black female slave when she was 16, he freed his Black children when they reached 21, but his plantation slaves were sold off when he died, YES WRONG to have any slaves but he WROTE the Declaration of Independence from the UK.  Also as President he purchased millions of more land to expand the US, he was a founding father of the US, great men are flawed, even clay feet, but still great.

1776 - 2026 America Celebrate their Independence

BBC News: Reports in its 4.13pm post the following, " Pop stars to perform across US to celebrate 250 years of independence "

Let's Get Real:

Thus US celebrates its 250th birthday.  The US is great, yes it has had its flaws, slavery etc, it took deaths and a civil war to STOP, even then it took in till the 1960s for African Americans to get their full rights, in the 21st Century it elected its 1st black President.  On the plus side we had US leadership during WW1 and 2.  The great President Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, US is not perfect but still a Shining City on a Hill.

Black Lives Matter vs. History - Race Update 1 - 2020 Election

BBC News: Reports " Trump rejects calls to drop Confederate base names "

Lets Get Real:

This blog has no time for statues to slave owners or to the naming of military bases after confederate Generals ( although General Robert .E. Lee was an outstanding General for the Confederate side, while the North had US Grant, a greater General in the long term ) What this blog does have a problem is trying to remove history, e.g the removal of statues by mobs, in the USSR under Stalin it was the practice to removes the images of those that had fallen foul of Stalin, they airbrushed pictures, wrong then, wrong now with the statues.   The left has to remember that in election terms they could sink the Democrats if they force the Party to the LEFT, the dissolution of Police Forces, the removal of history, could lead to moderate voters to think that the Dems have gone crazy and that Biden is an unfit President.   MOBS come and go, if its raining you do not see them, mob rule has to be countered by the Police, if mobs tear down statues then that mob should be arrested.  The UK and the US are Democracies, you make change through the ballot box otherwise you have mob rule and society falling apart. 

Trump and Confederate Statues - Trump Era

CNN - Politics: Reports " Trump calls removal of Confederate monuments 'so foolish' "

Lets Get Real:

One would think that POTUS would be hiding in the Oval Office at this moment in time, of course he is not, he is back to his infamous tweets and is not helping the matter at all.  As a WHITE blogger it is hard to understand why the Confederate Statues are causing this much fuzz, on the other hand if your a African - American you must see the Statues as honouring a course that enslaved your ancestors, it would be offencive to black Americans.  If the statues were placed on a museum and explained in their context that would be a better solutions, with pics of slaves being held in the South in the 19th Century, how the Southern economy was based on slavery.   Or as they have done in India, they have placed Imperial Statues in the Parks were the weeds are taking over, they do not have to face their past of being the Jewel in the Crown, also we need a trade deal with the modern India.   After the break up of the USS the old USSR monuments were torn down and discarded, this has caused friction between Modern Russia and its former Satellite Countries   This is interesting as modern Russia manages to have it both ways, the last Tsar Nicholas 11 is now admired in Russia, but they also keep Lenin in Red Square, no wonder Russians drink a lot, two different icons celebrated at the same time and representing different agendas, one does not see Nicholas 11 sharing a tea with Lenin in heaven.   The US must deal with the issue of race, the drugs in the inner cities, the violence, how African - Americans tend to be jailed more than white defendants, African - Americans have real problems today, some of that is based on the fact that Blacks did not get their full rights in till the 1960s under LBJ.  A President must be President of ALL the people, Trump is fast becoming a President of his base, and its only been six months.