Steve Breen for June 12, 2020

About time!

It’s about time for the same thing to happen to Trumpism.

And just so everyone’s clear, statues are not history or heritage.

And, by the way… THEY LOST, SO GET OVER IT!

Grant made a remark in his “Memoirs” to the effect that the Confederate soldiers were brave and loyal. However, he went on, never did any soldiers fight so well for such a poor cause.

Not an hourglass, no. Those things get turned over, and started again.

I like the idea that their time has run out. But it needs to run out and be gone. A grandfather clock, winding down. No, better yet, with it’s pendulum being removed.

Yeo

Columbus statues are toppling too. I guess we’d better all stop wearing our Columbia jackets, and rename the country, river, SC & OH capital cities, two Twin Cities suburbs, Milwaukee hospital, stop watching CBS, throw out our old records, abolish Knights of Columbus, take back Oct 2nd Monday, etc., etc. ….

Great toon today.

And good riddance. Most of the statues that idiots claim are “heritage” were put up more than a quarter-century after the war, when Jim Crow ruled the land (see Lies Across America, by James Loewen for examples and discussion. There’s a second edition showing the progress made!). They weren’t about heritage – they were about sending a message to any person of color who dared to stand up. Otherwise, why put a statue of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans, a place he had never been? And indeed, many of these statues even bore signs bearing witness to white supremacy – sometimes using those exact words.

Get rid of them.

If that’s an hour glass, why has it taken this long ? Must be all the horse’s a$$‘s got stuck in the narrow spot. Let’s advance progress and get one of those new atomic clocks that insures the time is always correct. Throw out the old clock . . .it’s time has passed.

I have no problem with the removal of these statues and monuments if that’s what the majority in a community wishes. There is a process for that in a civil society. A mob taking it into their own angry hands is wrong.

Their time was over more than a hundred years ago.

The vast majority of Southerners did not fight to preserve slavery. As a journal written by one that fought in it shows [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1874/06/a-rebels-recollections-part-1/308760/]

Many Confederate soldiers did not really know what they were fighting for, other than a vague notion that the Union was “bad” and “against them”… sadly, politicians still get away with stirring up strife over vague allegations today…

Each of us plays a part.

The sands of time..And these are the days of our lives

So, when the mob comes for the Washington Monument and the many, many statues of George Washington and change the name of the many thousands of schools, streets, and squares named for him will you stand by and watch? Ditto Thos. Jefferson et al. How about when they burn Plimoth Plantation and Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg?

When do we rename Yale University? The Columbia River? Washington DC and Washington State? Etc., etc., etc.

Overturning statues is an old, old American pastime! Funny how people forget what happened to the statue of King George III, which was toppled, broken up, and used for bullets. No doubt the Tories were outraged. But they ended up going to Canada.

If you’ve not read “Killer Angels” by Sharra, you should – fiction, but very well done and offers some insight to the period.

I can read this as a cartoon that supports the idea that their time has simply run out. An idea I agree† with. Good on Breen.

† Well, I wish it had run out sooner and with less grief, but now’s better than later.

What do these red states want? A return to slavery by race? Not gonna happen.

Good one Steve ♥

Iconic comic! Their time has gone.

Wonder how soon they’re going to tart blasting Stone Mountain?

And how soon will it be before the statue-smashers remember that Washington and Jefferson were slave-owners?

And how soon will Jefferson be characterised as a rapist?

Southerners at the time called it “The War of Northern Aggression” to disparage those who are anti-slavery.