{"id":45764,"date":"2020-06-26T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T20:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45764"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:37:18","slug":"fox-news-defends-slave-owners-it-doesnt-mean-they-were-terrible-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45764","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Defends Slave Owners: ‘It Doesn’t Mean They Were Terrible People’"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a bitter controversy spreading across America like a viral pandemic. The nation’s past is being held to greater scrutiny as a result of repeated incidents of unarmed black Americans being murdered by the police. This evidence of systemic racism has boiled over into a much needed dialog on what values our country ought to be preserving and encouraging.<\/p>\n

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Citizens have been pouring into the streets to express their anger and their refusal to tolerate the prejudice that presents itself in the form of “historical”<\/em> statues. These monuments were intended to pay tribute to leaders of the treasonous Confederacy. In some cases these statues have been ripped from their pedestals or otherwise defaced. Donald Trump has taken the side of the traitors (while accusing others of treason<\/a><\/strong>) and is calling for the arrests and harsh punishment of the protesters. On Friday morning he even tweeted “Wanted” posters<\/a><\/strong>. He is doing far more to persecute these demonstrators than he has ever done to hold actual racist murderers accountable for their crimes.<\/p>\n

Those making arguments in favor of maintaining these statues barely disguise their racist motives. They assert that it’s a matter of preserving history. But we do not erect statues of traitors and criminals as historical markers. If we did there would be statues of Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray. Statues are honorific, not history lessons. And removing them doesn’t erase any historical data. The South’s rebellion to preserve slavery is still recorded in history books and documentaries, as it should be.<\/p>\n

Cut to Fox News (the network that is literally killing people<\/a><\/strong>). On Friday’s edition of Fox and Friends, the now social distancing “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes invited South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham to discuss these issues. Co-host Brian Kilmeade led off with this wholehearted embrace of what Trump once called the “very fine people on both sides”<\/em> of the racial hatred debate. “These people were right,”<\/em> Kilmeade began, and “Those people were wrong. But it doesn’t mean they were terrible people. They were people of their times.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Brian Kilmeade on fighting for freedom vs. fighting for chattel slavery: "These people were right. Those people were wrong. But it doesn't mean they were terrible people, they were people of their times." pic.twitter.com\/clY0XGCMUl<\/a><\/p>\n

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) June 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n