[Vision2020] And BTW Keely

[Phil Nisbet]

Keely

The point is exactly that you do not support the racism of Jackson or of 
Wilson, yet because they are still taken out of context because of other 
accomplishments in their Democratic Administrations, they are indeed still 
honored by the current Democratic Party.  Nobody sane would seriously think 
that a Modern Democrat would support the kind of racism that those two men 
gleefully espoused.  In the same light, I do not think that finding good 
things about Robert E Lee, a man who during his life was a good serving 
American soldier who fought bravely in Mexico and almost became our 
Commander of the Armies at the start of the Civil War, makes somebody a 
racist either.

Yet that is exactly what is happening.  People have been identified as 
racists because of a painting of Lee on their walls or for giving a lecture 
on Lee at the Chamber of Commerce.  If that is indeed the case, then the 
other follows as well, if you glory in Jefferson Jackson day dinners, you 
also must be a racist.

Rather than throw those kinds of logic at the wall, why not just tone down 
the rhetoric on all sides and maybe we might heal the wounds in this 
community.

Phil Nisbet

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