Every family has a Cousin Eddie;
someone who took the wrong fork in life’s road and
never turned around. If this special cousin was
lucky enough to find a trophy wife short on
standards and long on patience, the two might have
splashed around the gene pool long enough to fill an
entire branch of your family tree. God commands us
to love Cousin Eddie, so erasing all evidence of his
existence and ignoring his influence on your
heritage is the pinnacle of arrogance.
Today’s ruling class is similarly attempting to
purge all reference to America’s Cousin
Eddie—slavery and the Confederacy. There was a time
when history was as fixed as our sex or race, but in
today’s world of unicorns and fairy dust there are
no absolutes. As with Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel
Dolezal, anything can be colored or shaped to fit
the new progressive template, so history is simply
rewritten.
Although the first slaves shipped to America were
Irish, racist progressives purposely ignore them to
focus on the black slave trade. Irish indentured
servants scattered and have so permeated our
American family they are impossible to target and
trap in dependency. Instead, America haters focus
attention on black slaves and their ownership by our
founding fathers as reason to dismiss our republic
and the liberty she stands for. They are so wrong.
Framers of our Constitution recognized the hypocrisy
of owning slaves in a nation founded on freedom, but
they acknowledged complex problems do not have
simple solutions. The Three-fifths Clause of our
Constitution became the first step in America’s 74
year journey to eliminate slavery. Today’s leftists
intentionally mislead by claiming the Three-fifths
Clause proves racism; viewing slaves as less than
whole. However, counting slaves as full citizens
would have paradoxically promoted a slave’s value,
thus disproportionally empowering slave state
representation in Congress. Had slaves not been
counted, the overwhelming political capital of the
non-slave states may have settled the issue by
ballots rather than bullets. This brings me to my
point.
To properly judge our experiment in freedom requires
recognition our republic has been shaped by decades
of prosperity and brilliance, as well as periods of
despair. It is the blending of these influences
which refined the great idea called America. For
today’s leftists to purge Confederate battle flags,
statues of Civil War heroes or memorials of
slave-owning founders cheapens the lives of
Americans who died confirming Jefferson’s
revolutionary idea that all men are created equal.
Ours truly is the greatest nation in world history
and it all began 239 years ago when 56 brave
patriots signed the Declaration of Independence. We
must never let progressives morph our 4th of July
into a time of mourning because it truly is a time
to proudly wave the stars and stripes and light up
the night sky with fireworks. Let freedom ring.
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