Statues Confessions

I have been bending the truth into a circle a lot lately. Rather than just watching TV; ive been trying to get people to work together during the pandemic. I'm a fence setter neutral kind of person. When i do weigh in its always secretly on the side of good.
Statues. If its dedicated to your family or loved ones i get it; orherwise its really just ideolology.

We have terror in middle east blowing up ancient structures. In America we have our own culture terrors. They want to spray paint the WWII & Lincoln memorial. They want to destroy CSA statues. Its very weird. You must realize; the people who emgage in such things view themselves internally as inferior. By destroying something thats important to a lot of people; it makes them feel important. Kind if like the people that break the gate on your fence; scratch your car; crush your mail box. They feel they are not capable of earning something good; so they want to lash out at someone else.

So i have been messing with people on these issues; did it in the past too. In order to understand what its all about.
Middle east: to historians like my self we really need to preserve ancient sites & relics. They link us to the past. They give us a glimpse into the past.
To the people destroying them its against their faith; a way to hurt people they hate; etc.
America reminds me of Great Britain. The Civil War factory owners were mostly English. They controlled politics; papers; militia; cops in the north. They funded Lincoln.
In the south mostly Keltic plantation owners contolled the cotton northern owners wanted. They controlled the politicians & etc in south. They should have just gave up slaves; let civil unrest break out in the south; & kept their land. Instead they decided to succeed; form their own nation; & lose. They lost all their land & possessions.
But who did most of the fighting & dying? A diverse group actually. Let's just say English; Nordic; & Irish immigrants for north. Kelts; Native Americans; & Jews for south.
In Great Britain it was a similar deal. The English conquered; occupied; & controlled the Welsh; Scots; Irish; Picts; & India Indians.
The Union is like the English. The south is like the Scots & Welsh. The Native Americans are like the Picts. The African Americans are like the Irish in North Ireland.

The Scots got to vote on leaving Great Britain. It would be too hard; so they stayed. But they will never forget being conquered. The English history books paint the English much better; & the Kelts worse; than the Kelts would like. In America the north won; so the history books are similar. Most white southerners feel like they were conquered & occupied; but it would be nearly impossible to seperate at this point.
The picts are like Native Americans. Not many of them left; not much land or power; so just stuck going along for the ride.
The African Americans are like the Irish people stuck in North Ireland. They are not happy; they don't want to be there; but where else would they go.

So the Union & CSA both sinned; so no point into getting into that. In Great Britain England is still the strongest; richest; & has the most power. The northeast & west coast is still the same in America. They basically have most of the wealth; power; & influence to this day.
In the past expanding Europeans were good at turning Native American tribes against each other. Since the Civil War ended the north has been good at that too. They bought Liberia; but convinced most bkacks to stay in the south; & grow them cheap cotton on the land once owned by plantation owners (reperations). Hey; they had the right to stay. But as a part black man who sees most blacks are still not happy to be here; you have to scratch your head. They could have had their own nation. Ran it their own way. Been trading partners with America & Europe; instead they stayed here. Obvi had they not me & my kids wouldnt be as fast at sprinting; but it makes you scratch your head.
Well; by first trying to put freed slaves in charge; they created great division. By convincing them to stay here; they created animosity. On the one side are Kelts who have been conquered again. On the other are blacks who endured slavery. The wealth is in the north. The new factories built are owned by the north. The south now can't sell to fireign nations; & are forced by one sided northern laws to accept whatever $ they are given for things.
They grow the cotton; tobacco; etc. And raise the cattle for the north. The north uses the same burn & scourge Roman tactics that finally crippled the south to conquer the Plains Indians. They open those seized lands to heavy settlement & use it to grow their crops. They really learned during the Civil War that they couldnt raise any cash crops; enough staple foods; or enough meat ti feed themselves. So they use the south for that. A divided south was good for them.
Think of Isreal. Britain needed Middle East oil. They placed the surviving Jews from WWII there. The Muslims switched from attacking Brits to Jews. The Brits created conflict between middle east Jews & Muslims; & got their oil affordable. The north did the ssme with southern whites & blacks. Let them work hard to grow crops & raise animals. Keep the wealth in the north east. Am i wrong? Look at wealth; standard of living; schools; average income; & education in the northeast & compare it to the south today. Am i wrong?
Look at the northeast. The blacks are mostly poor & in inner city slums. Yet blacks in the south mostly vote for the Democrats which helps the northeast stay richer & more powerful to this day. The southern whites vote mostly for Republicans over religious reasons & other rights.
You would assume the southern blacks & whites would unite; & fight together to get their equal share of the nations wealth. But they don't. They keep getting played against each other. Oh well.
Now for the statues. I do not care. Christians aren't suppossed to worship idols. But you will note the north & northern owned media keeps pushing to have southern statues destroyed. Think on this; Washington; Jefferson; & Grant all owned slaves. They only took Jefferson off $. I think they will push to remove Washington eventually. But Grant will never be removed.
Both sides in the Civil War were guilty of wrongs; most who died on both sides had no slaves. Yet they are only going after CSA statues; not Union ones. I know people believe the north started the war over slavery; but let's look at in context. Let's say the English were pushing to destroy all statues dedicated to Scots; but not the English ones. Well; they are taking down the CSA ones; but not the Union ones. So many descendents of southern kelts are mad about it; feel they are still getting ran over.
As for me. I'm descended from Scot & English; slave & CSA non slave owning soldier; & Union doctor. I don't care.
Just put the southern statues in museums & on Civil War battle fields. You were conquered; move on. Its rocks & metal. Let it go. Then the rock heads can start fighting to get slave owner Washingtons stuff removed. Does it honestly change your life? Then why do you care. There was so many angry socislists arguing with angry people who loved a statue; that a college girl got ran over. Was her life worth keeping a statue? No.
Yes; the north should set the example. Put their Union statues in museums; then challenge the south to do the same. But we know they will not. Remember when Brits got mad over the movie "Patriot" w/Mel Gibson? I assure you; if the English could somehow destroy anything dedicated to the Irish in North Ireland they would; to mentally strenghten their hold over the region. But they also would not agree to destroy an equal number of English statues in North Ireland or England. Its a power thing.
The northeast is saying southern blacks; we used our power to help get southern white statues dedicated to their dead soldiers removed; now vote how we tell you please.

My view: just move on if your a southern white & care about those statues. I'm trying to remember taking my kids to see a statue. I did take them to pose with cute little kid statues; in front of Christian crosses; & thats about it. So that means it doesn't matter to me. I drove by a statue dedicated to someone my kids are descended from. Maybe i should have stopped; but i didnt care enough to.

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I just can't stop messing with people. This site is to confess. I just tried to convince people why every side sees statues differently in America.
I don't care. I could have cheaply taken my kids to DC one time. I did not care. My kids are descended from a man who has a large statue. Ive driven by it way over 100 times & never stopped; i do not care.
Its a statue. Rocks & metal. Who cares?

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