For thoughtful minds, a mystery
to watch modern iconoclasts
destroy statues of fathers’ cast;
we cannot erase history
so why hate sculpture bitterly?
Denial will repeat the past:
agenda hides behind a mask,
mobs pave a road to anarchy.
Remember that all men bleed red,
to judge by skin is fool’s extreme.
Lament the blood spilled on our sod,
mourn hostile words in anger said,
let truth and justice reign supreme
and leave all vengeance unto God!
See Daily Wire’s brief comments and video by former NBA star, Charles Barkley
a poem in my pocket 
Aug 25, 2017 @ 20:14:07
Lynn, I was teaching an 8th grade class. We were going through the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. A young man of color came up to me one day, very respectfully… which was not his usual way of dealing with me. He said he didn’t like the one character saying the N-word. I told him that I agreed with him, but that I would be more put out by a horrible racist character being depicted using PC language (in essence). He ended up agreeing. It helped him to see clearly that this was a bad guy.
Aug 25, 2017 @ 18:50:08
let truth and justice reign supreme
and leave all vengeance unto God!
Great principles to adhere to, lynn, but human nature as such intrudes into the thinkings!
Hank
Aug 26, 2017 @ 06:41:39
Hard for us to live up to our principles, I agree.
Aug 25, 2017 @ 11:38:22
Beautiful.
Aug 25, 2017 @ 13:00:12
Thanks, Jean.
Aug 25, 2017 @ 09:57:50
Love the wisdom of this: to acknowledge past woods instead of trying to hide them…but to acknowledge them because we never want to repeat them
Aug 25, 2017 @ 09:59:48
Absolutely, Bryan (“woods” we remember the deeds…can learn from good and bad.
Aug 25, 2017 @ 10:03:13
Darn auto correct…I had meant “wrongs” not “woods”
Aug 25, 2017 @ 10:17:17
No problem…auto correct gets it wrong more often!
Aug 25, 2017 @ 04:55:25
How true, ‘we cannot erase history
so why hate sculpture bitterly’ –
they’re trying to do the same with Admiral Nelson!
Aug 25, 2017 @ 07:04:51
Bah…what does it accomplish?