Charlottesville, Virginia: Demonizing Thomas Jefferson and Continuing the Trend to Foreclose Education and Free Speech | Eastern North Carolina Now

    The people that I know and that I associate with (mostly white since I am a white woman) do not possess the thought process that says that just because a person has a different skin color, he or she is of a different worth or has less dignity as a human being. We often don't possess the thought process that directs us to review and scrutinize everything we write and say to make sure that absolutely nothing can be misconstrued, mistaken, or twisted into showing us to be discriminatory or to be otherwise insensitive to others. It's because we come from a place where we don't discriminate and we don't set out in any way, shape, or form to be insensitive to others. Most of us are like this because of our deep foundation in religion. We respect one another because we are taught to love one another; strong communities are founded on mutual respect and a fondness for one another. The problem is that our current culture of racial divide, the constant flinging of the terms "racist" and "white supremist" are imputing on well-intentioned white people a tendency - always a tendency, as President Obama, Michele Obama, and Hillary Clinton publicly stated - to be these terrible things and to inherently look down on black people. It's not fair to the vast majority of white persons and this problem needs to be addressed. Something needs to done to protect white people and their free exercise of the First Amendment, without the automatic presumption of discrimination.

    Maybe we've dwelled on slavery and on past discrimination for too long. Maybe we've retreated to political correctness for too long to avoid honest conversations about the state of race relations and the effect of history on our current status. Perhaps we've allowed African-Americans, too fragile to think outside the "slavery and discrimination" box, to control the dialogue for too long. Thomas Sowell once said: "When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." Maybe for once we should really trying treating everyone as equals rather than as special.

    It is a true denial of the free speech rights of others and an exercise of true intolerance when certain individuals refuse to see things without looking at them through a lens of color. How far can it go? I think the Chancellorsville city council vote is one example. In their myopathy, they chose to discard Thomas Jefferson in favor of another form of acceptance of slavery and in favor of government tyranny. Of course, the war against Confederate monuments and leaders is another example.

    In closing, I want to emphasize again that I wish today's liberals and race mongers would exercise the same tolerance that they demand of others.

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    Reference: "Charlottesville Will No Longer Celebrate Thomas Jefferson's Birthday in His Virginia Hometown," FOX News. Referenced at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/charlottesville-will-no-longer-celebrate-thomas-jeffersons-birthday-in-his-virginia-hometown-report
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