HATE

After the violence that happened last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia I feel that it is necessary for me to give my thoughts on the situation. I am so saddened that violence there caused the death of a young woman and two state troopers. I feel that our country is moving backwards and that very much saddens me.

I lived through the turbuent decade of the 1960s. I saw the shooting of our then President John F. Kennedy. I saw the shooting of his brother Robert F. Kennedy that was running for president, and I saw the shooting of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is a time that I never want to see America go back to.

Hate is a terrible thing. In this country we are seeing an uprising of the KKK, more exposure of the Nazi Party, and vocal White Supremacists. I feel that much of it is caused by the actions of our present president during his campaign and since he has become president.

Much has been caused lately by the removal of Confederate Statues. I do not believe that the Confederate or Nazi flags should be seen in public. We have one flag in this country and that is the Stars and Stripes. It is what our service men and women fight for and what they have been fighting for in World War I, World War II, The Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, and in the Iraq and Afganistan Wars. People have lost their lives fighting for what they believe should be a democratic country.

Back to the removal of the Confederate Statues. I will probably get a lot of anger and disrespect for what I think, but I do not think that Confederate Statues should be removed. There was a terrible Civil War in America, but it is over and those statues are a part of American history. Our elders, our young adults, and our children should look at those statues and think of history, of the Civil War and realize that it was a bad time and both sides fought for what they believed in.

That war is over and it is time for White Supremacy and racism to end in America. It is time for the Confedrate and Nazi supporters to put their flags and their hatred into hiding and make America a better place for all of us.


Copyright   Larry W. Fish   2017