Let’s erase all the mistakes of the past
By Stuart J. Moskovitz
Statues are coming down everywhere because they represent people who fought for the confederacy, owned slaves or some other historical abomination. Names of buildings on campus are being changed, and one university, Stockton, has removed the bust of its namesake, Richard Stockton and is considering changing the name of the school because this signer of the Declaration of Independence owned slaves.
Since we are going down this road, we need to be consistent and I propose the following changes:
1. Gettysburg needs to be renamed. After all, James Gettys, the founder owned a slave. Henceforth, the Gettysburg Address should be known as the Adams County address, since John Adams didn’t own slaves.
2. Washington D.C. has to be renamed, since Washington owned slaves. Also, we all know about Columbus’ racist history, so it cannot be the District of Columbia. Henceforth, the capital should be known as Adams, C.D. (central district).
3. Washington and Jefferson University must change its name to Adams and Quincy Adams University.
4. California must change its name. California begins with Calif. Caliph is the Islamic form of hegemony that has caused the brutal murders of tens of millions of people and subjugation of billions over the centuries. Let’s call it Freedomornia. Los Angeles can’t remain with that name because it offends atheists who don’t believe in angels. Let’s call it Los Humanos, Freedomornia.
5. Woodrow Wilson was a known racist. Princeton has to get rid of the school named for its former president.
6. Columbia University must become NativeAmericania because, well, we discussed Columbus above.
7. William Penn owned slaves. So that state needs to be renamed Franklinsylvania. No, sorry. He owned slaves, too. How about just Sylvania. And Philadelphia cannot remain as named. It means city of brotherly love. What about the women? Let’s just call the home of the Eagles Adelphia, Sylvania.
8. Ford Motor Company has to change its name. Henry Ford was a known Nazi sympathizer. Perhaps the company should be renamed the Taurus Motor Company. Even the Thunderbird Motor Company would work.
9. Volkswagon. Seriously? You know you can’t keep that name, right?
10. We cannot call that ball the NFL uses a “pigskin” any more, because it offends Moslems. Let’s make everyone happy and refer to it as a Kaepernick.
11. Ulysses S. Grant was the last President to have owned slaves. So from now on, the correct Jeopardy response to where is Ulysses S. Grant buried must be “What is President’s Tomb.”
12. There are 26 Jefferson counties in the United States. Let’s get to work renaming them. Also, the 31 Washington counties, the 24 Franklin counties, the 24 Jackson counties, the 20 Madison counties, the 17 Monroe counties, (and, of course the 15 Grant counties), the 10 Hancock counties, well, as you can see, we have a lot of work to do.
13.13. By the way, Hugh Mercer was a confederate general. So, since the people in Trenton aren’t doing much these days anyway, let’s get to work changing the name of that county (and the seven others named for his grandfather of the same name)
14. Slaves were used to build the White House, the Capitol, the Castle at the Smithsonian Institution and therefore all need to come down. While we’re at it, of course, the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial need to be demolished (slave owners their whole lives).
15. The Martin Luther King statue at the Smithsonian needs to come down because it is the ultimate insult for the memorial to this great civil rights leader to be placed at a museum begun with the labors of slaves.
16. One of the great symbols of liberty in America is Faneuil Hall in Boston. Many great orators used that location to opine about democratic principles. Samuel Adams spoke here to encourage revolution against British tyranny. It is one of the birthplaces of freedom. It needs to be renamed or taken down. Peter Faneuil was a slave trader.
The fact is, if we want to take political correctness to the extreme, there is little in this country that isn’t offensive to someone. The question is, as it always is, when is the level of sensitivity appropriate, when is it excessive.
Before answering that question, remember Newton’s third law: For every action, there is a reaction, equal and opposite in nature.
Stuart J. Moskovitz, Esq, is a fomer mayor of Manalapan
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What we need is some elected officials to strap on a pair and say enough of this stupidity – the statue, the painting, the name, the whatever stays. How stupid it is to put our modern day viewpoints onto people who lived hundreds of years ago
And what about Nancy Pelosi?
It was May 2, 1948, when, according to a Baltimore Sun article from that day, “3,000” looked on as then-Governor William Preston Lane Jr. and Pelosi’s father, the late Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., spoke at the dedication of a monument to honor Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
The article said Lane delivered a speech, and Mayor D’Alesandro “accepted” the memorial.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/24/nancy-pelosis-father-helped-dedicate-confederate-monument.html
Nancy Pelosi must resign from Congress!
This article left out the fact that slave owners were the ones who helped draft the US Constitution. When will we get rid of that “racist” doctrine?
Political correctness run amok – thank you loonie lefties, communist agitators and a host of anti American bigots.
New York (city and state) are named after the slave owner Duke of York. Requires immediate change!
A slippery slope becomes an avalanche
The way to fight this crap is for the overwhelming majority of Americans who despise this attack on our history to vote every one of the limp wrists weaklings who caved in to the politically correct pressure out of office. Doesn’t matter if it’s Democrat, Republican or whatever – this BS has got to stop.
In May, 1926, the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, spoke to a woman’s group of the Ku Klux Klan in Silverlake, New Jersey (from pages 366-67 of Sanger’s 1938 autobiography).
Apparently, her speech was warmly received by the Klan, as “A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered” after she concluded her remarks. (from pages 366-67 of Sanger’s 1938 autobiography)
At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.
Another member of the Board of Directors for Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League was Lothrop Stoddard, who, according to Wikipedia:
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothrop_Stoddard )
was “an American historian, journalist, eugenicist, Klansman, and political theorist.” He was also Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as “scientific” and “humanitarian.”
I wonder if Margaret Sanger’s racial eugenics philosophy, which included sterilization as well as contraception, would cause this saint of the liberals to be tarnished.
Gee, if a Republican or a conservative associated with members of the KKK or espoused racial eugenic practices of Nazi Germany, whaqt would liberals say?
In a December 10, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble of the Eugenics Society, in the context of discussing the Negro Project, which she developed in concert with white birth-control reformers, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population”.
In fact, two years ago, a group of Black Pastors requested that the Smithsonian remove the bust of the Planned Parenthood founder.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/black-pastors-ask-smithsonian-remove-bust-planned-parenthood-founder
@Mike Harmon – you are correct. A slippery slope does become an avalanche.
OMG – in doing some more research, here’s what I found – Margaret Sanger actually OPPOSED abortion!
“In 1930, Pope Pius XII wrote his encyclical Castii Connubii, which reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s prohibition of abortion. In 1931, Sanger wrote this in her response to the encyclical:
Birth Control Does Not Mean Abortion
“The real alternative to birth control is abortion,” wrote Dean Inge, in his article already quoted.
It is an alternative that I cannot too strongly condemn. Although abortion may be resorted to in order to save the life of the mother, the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious. I bring up the subject here only because some ill-informed persons have the notion that when we speak of birth control we include abortion as a method. We certainly do not.
Abortion destroys the already fertilized ovum or the embryo; contraception, as I have carefully explained, prevents the fertilizing of the ovum by keeping the male cells away. Thus it prevents the beginning of life.
In her 1938 autobiography, Sanger says the following on page 217:
To each group we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way—no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not begun.”
from: https://www.redstate.com/ironchapman/2013/01/23/what-did-margaret-sanger-think-about-abortion/