There was a rare bit of good news from the capital of the country this week with a report that the owners of the NFL team of Washington are seriously considering the requirement of President Donald Trump to restore the name “Redskins”.
It was in 2020, a year of Abjecte and bizarre social madness, that the Redskins became the Washington football team and ultimately the commanders, out of concern that “Redskin” is an attacking term. It does not matter that the poll after the poll shows that actual American Indians have no objection to it.
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They were not just the Redskins. In the aftermath of the weakening madness of 2020, images were overthrown everywhere in the country. Of course it started with confederated monuments, which were low -hanging fruit, but soon images of Christopher Columbus and Teddy Roosevelt also fell.
Perhaps the best or worst example was the removal of emancipation -memorial in Boston. This was a statue of Abraham Lincoln that freed a slave, founded in 1879, the design of which was literally paid by liberated slaves.
File – in this 25 June 2020, file photo, a statue that kneels a released slave on the feet of President Abraham Lincoln, rests on a pedestal in Boston. On Tuesday, December 29, the statue that raised objections was removed from its perch in the midst of a national settlement with racial injustice. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
The intergalactic reclam of the officials in Boston, who thought they knew better how to celebrate the end of slavery than real slaves, shows exactly why the memorials and names have been cut out by Wokess all have to return.
On the left, the left believes that the arc of history bends to their preferences, and that “social justice” is a one -way ratchet, that their victories cannot be undone. But in fact there is no reason to accept that.
What 2020 showed us was that the iconoclastic impulse to destroy the images and symbols of a society is insatiable. As soon as they ruin one holy idol, they switch to the next and the next, until mother’s birth people are called.
If there had been a rational process in 2020 to determine which monuments should remain or go, we might have been able to be considered compromises on the most questionable: the Cleveland Indians and Nathan Bedford Forrest are not the same.
But that didn’t happen. Instead, we saw mass hysteria, from the crowd, the state and companies. First pull the images down, never ask questions, was the order of the day.
Employees remove part of a statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has been outside the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History since 1940 that the museum suggested to remove objections from some that it was a symbol of colonialism, in New York City, New York, US, 20, 2022. Reuters/Caitlin. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs)
This is why, for Americans to really heal the wound that was 2020, not only the avaline of Wokess, but also the Draconian Covid -Lockdowns that were accompanied by it, we have to press the reset button and return what we have so carelessly destroyed.
In five years, on a cold Sunday, with their team loses to the Eagles, Washington fans should be able to say: “Do you remember what we no longer called them the Redskins? That was stupid,” and knows that a mistake was justified.
Similarly, if on a spring day in Gotham, New Yorkers can again tip their hat to the once devised Teddy Roosevelt-Statel, then they will also know that we are the makers of history, not only passengers for the inevitable Marxist ride.
The urge to destroy monuments and names is nothing new. In ancient Egypt we call the damn memoriae when a Pharoah ended the name of a predecessor. In the Middle Ages we call it iconoclasma, and it tore the Christian faith apart.
Troves of knowledge and artistic treasure have been destroyed by well -intended people from the past, who just knew deep inside, that they not only had to protect their contemporaries, but also all humanity, by destroying what they saw as offensive.
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Today we have a choice. 2020 was only 5 years ago. We can still recover what has been lost, yes, even the general statue of Lee in Richmond, and then, perhaps, take on a rational process to decide what history we want to deprive future generations of.
The message must be clear that when mistakes are made, our society can and go back. Just when we went back from the “progressive” policy to let men play in the sports sports, we can go back to a time when we respected the past, instead of supplying and expelling it.
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2020 was a year of almost inscrutable destruction, loss of life, loss of freedom and loss of historical monuments and names, but often, for destruction, renewal grows, and the owners of, as Trump currently says, the Washington has Whatever a chance to blossom that innovation.
So also greets the Redskins, and the Roosevelts and Lincolns. Greetings to Columbus and his oceans blue. This is our history, and it’s time for us to win it back.
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