Living Confederate Monuments

      A truly great country does not ignore or excuse its sins. It confronts them and then works to make them right. - Nikole Hannah-Jones

      Donald Trump gave his July 4th  message on July 3rd.

        I'm giving my July 4th message on July 5th.
        Most of Donald Trump's July 3rd  message had to do with monuments.
       Here's my July 5th message, which also has to do with monuments:        
       My message to all my fellow Americans on this July 5, 2020 is to read writer Caroline Randall Williams' New York Times June 28, 2020 op-ed piece, "You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body is a Confederate Monument."

       Here's the link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/opinion/confederate-monuments-racism.html

      Caroline Randall Williams is the great-great grand daughter of a famous Confederate general commemorated in a grand monument who raped his domestic female slaves, one of whom gave birth to her great-grandfather. As she writes in her essay, What is a monument but a standing memory? An artifact to make tangible the truth of the past. My body and blood are a tangible truth of the South and its past.  Ms. Williams' essay is not by any means a rewriting of that past but rather a thought-provoking reframing of it.
       One letter to the New York Times editor commented that this piece should be required reading in every school. It should, indeed.
        Happy July 4th weekend, everyone.  Next year in a better, healthier country with a better President.