THE GET RID OF ALL SOUTHERN STATUES MOVEMENT

It looks like the "Get Rid of All Confederate Statues" (GRACS's) gang is up and running again after pausing for Hurricanes Harvey & Irma.

While I detest and cannot condone the existence of slavery in the 19th century era South, (my own 5x great Grandmother was an African-American slave) the Civil War was about a lot more than the existence of slavery. The common soldier who fought and died under the Stars & Bars (Confederate Battle Flag) never owned a slave, and believed he waged war for country, culture and family.

It is interesting that our nation rebelled against England and threw off the shackles which bound us to that colonial power, and the very Declaration of Independence enshrined the right to take such a drastic measure. When the original states of our union joined together in a confederation of separate and equal governing entities, it was implied that just as they had a right to join, they would at any time, given their decision to do so, have a right to separate.

A significant percentage of the statues the Get Rid of All Southern Statues gang are so busy pulling down were placed there by the widows and orphans of southern soldiers well over a century ago. It is so strange and paradoxical to me that the movement to tear the statues down has sprung up overnight; given the multiplied decades in which these statues have stood in front of our courthouses and in our parks.


by William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from (Mc)Donald's Daily Diary. Vol. 68. Copyright pending

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