Is It History Or Racism?

The thing that is amazing to me about this "Purge of History" is why it only started after Obama left office and why it's so selective. President Obama did as much if not more to exploit and divide the races than any president in recent history.

It's said that the statues being destroyed and under attack represent people who were "racist". If they were indeed racist then why hasn't there been this effort to remove them before now? Why did they wait until after President Trump was elected to begin this purge of "racist" from our history? If owning slaves is the criteria for being labeled a "racist", what about those who were "black" and owned slaves. Were they racist? What were those people who owned "white slaves"? What about those today, such as many wealthy Muslims, who own and traffic in slaves?

I submit that while Nathan Bedford Forrest owned slaves he was a far less "racist" than either President Wilson and FDR; That Robert E. Lee was far less a "racist" than Sen, Robert Byrd or dozens of other senators including Albert Gore.

This outrageous behavior of destroying property and suppressing the rights of citizens is NOT so much about anger at Confederate leaders or even slave owners but anger over the fact that Donald Trump was elected president. The effort is clearly less about bringing down a statue than about bringing down a government. It's less about slavery than about control. Less about honest protest than about pure anarchy.