The Dallas mayor called Confederate statues “propaganda,” and a Hollywood cemetery has succumbed to threats and has removed a memorial. And this is just a short little list of some of the events that are occurring now in what looks to be a mad dash to comply with the latest conventional wisdom and to make sure that you are seen on the correct side of it. Have to take a break here. We’ll come back, we will continue in mere moments.
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RUSH: Here’s Kathy in Providence, Rhode Island, as we kick off the phones today. Welcome. Great to have you here.
It’s really about slavery, and that’s another thing I haven’t heard you mention very much, but probably I assume that you, like most Americans, are very, you know, sad and ashamed of years of slavery and considering human people as property and able to sell and buy and many of — most of them were of color. And so, you know, it’s come down through the centuries that, you know, these traits linger in the lives… I had a black friend in California — I had more than one, but — she was telling me that her family, her mother, and her mother knew their mother. This is about 20 years ago.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: They knew their parents, but they didn’t know their grandparents or their great parents, great-grandparents. They had no family from before slavery. Back then people weren’t people. Their births weren’t recorded at the local county office. You know, it was just a whole different world. So we today, we have this heritage of people being treated very, very poorly and horribly and killed in some cases and lynched in some cases, and I just think that when we talk about these issues that verge on slavery, I hope that we will be a little more direct in being honest about what it was really all about. That was a long sentence.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: — it was the order… The United States was not in any way unique in this. In fact, what makes the United States unique is that we are the first serious major country, population that ended it. We went to war to end it, and 500,000 citizens of this country died in that effort. Nobody here denies slavery. Nobody’s denying it at all. But there’s a missing sense of proportion about this — and I have to disagree with you on one thing, Kathy.
This is ideological. Every bit of this is ideological. It is left versus right, centrist versus whatever. It is. And the fact that a lot of people don’t see that is, I think, what permits much of this to happen. Anyway, I’m glad you called. I appreciate it. I conclude our call in all sensitivity to you, but I must go because of the constraints of time.
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