NA WAA-O FOR THE CHURCH MILITANT

We are all God fearing, respectful, loving Catholics. Right?
Not so fast.

Some "good" US Catholics argue along with a large swathe of the US Political Right, that it is unhelpful railing against the controversial Confederate Statues. The statues should be left alone for many funny reasons. The following is my response to one of the riled contributors.

OUTRAGE WAXES AND WANES OVER TIME. It is interesting to note that some of these statues were installed by the descendants of the losing side as recently as the late 1950s, long long after the American Civil War was won and lost. These descendants knew enough history which they strove to revise with the strength of their numbers against the aspirations of blacks just straining to break loose of reactionary Jim Crow restrictions cooked up to counter the advance of liberating Federal Civil and Voting Rights legislation. Fortunately and unfortunately over time the demographics are ever so gradually changing.

EXAMPLE: There is no way the bright son/daughter of a former or current member of the KKK or even a family not so overtly racial, can leave his family cocoon to attend college at Caltech, Stanford, Berkeley, Northwestern, Yale, Columbia or Harvard, and return home, if ever, and remain the same. To do so will render him/her a social misfit incapable of operating in the modern world. Let me avoid using the word haters. However the demographic trend is such that the stock of those who think that the "good old days" were fantastic is thinning out. The protesters for retaining "our heritage" deliberately refuse to acknowledge that the various city, county and state legislatures spent agonizing years and decades, often out of the public eye, debating IF AND WHEN THESE STATUES SHOULD COME DOWN. And they succeeded without shooting anyone in those hallowed Chambers. That a group of free speech advocates, from as far afield as Montana and Wyoming should descend on Charlottesville, VA, in battle gear, to counter a vote legitimately taken by its own councillors, is a most bizarre development.

Free speech does not equal to free murder. Even before the murder of Heather Heyer, the Nazi-inspired intimidation by flaming torch bearing roughnecks is an experience no adult not to mention a child, Jew or not, should have to endure. I understand that a couple of priests, not just the one that recently confessed about his past, have spoken from the pulpit against it. CM should stand up to be counted.

One other thing, if the white supremacists are truly desirous of maintaining the status quo, they should desist sending their kids to school. That is where the evil seed of equality, inclusiveness and (horror of horrors) interracial marriages are planted. #https://www.churchmilitant.com/…/vortex-eclipse-of-morality…