(2021 Update: I wrote the post below last year. I am glad to say it is now out of date. Not the part about why Juneteenth should be celebrated. That is as true today as it was a year ago. What’s out of date is the statement that Juneteenth is not a federal holiday. As of this week, Juneteenth is a federal holiday! Thank you, President Biden! Elections matter.)
Josh Hawley: Traitor, Clown, Idiot
As if we needed a reminder that Josh Hawley is not just a traitor, but also an intellectually dishonest, grandstanding clown.
– P. Sicher
Ulysses S. Grant was on the right side of history
I enthusiastically and proudly support Black Lives Matter. I attended a protest just last weekend. But I’m saddened at protesters’ destruction of a Ulysses S. Grant statue.
As a Union general he advocated for black soldiers and crushed the slaveholders’ rebellion. Between Lincoln and LBJ, no president fought harder for racial justice than Grant. He secured passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments, signed Civil Rights Acts that wouldn’t be seen again until the 1960s, and wiped out the KKK for a generation.
Grant wasn’t perfect. No one is.
His effort to do right by Native Americans was was genuine, but he bears much of the responsibility for the Peace Policy’s collapse. Nonetheless, the world is a better place because he existed. Frederick Douglass had good reason to say that Grant was “a man too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point.”
– P. Sicher
The Meaning of “Black Lives Matter”
Even as protests grip our country in response to the brutal murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many more, far too many white American refuse to understand the meaning and importance of Black Lives Matter. Willfully and hatefully ignorant, they choose to believe that Black Lives Matter is somehow racist, that to say “Black Lives Matter” is to believe that white lives do not matter.
Obviously, that is utter nonsense. When people say that “Black Lives Matter,” they are calling attention to the fact that our society does not value black lives as highly as other lives. In declaring that “Black Lives Matter,” they are condemning this undeniable injustice and demanding change.
Mitt Romney is TBD
On March 4, 2017, Saturday Night Live aired a trailer for a fake movie about a Republican who heroically stood against Donald Trump.
Juneteenth is a better holiday than Columbus Day because freedom is better than genocide
Abraham Lincoln once wrote, “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” I’d like to propose a corollary: “If emancipation is not worth celebrating, nothing is worth celebrating.”
Unfortunately, there is no federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery, although there is a holiday that commemorates the “discovery” of the Americas by Christopher Columbus.
The Lincoln Liberal 