I am ever further stunned by the sheer ignorance of history repeatedly displayed by the cloyingly virtuous left. My great niece (by marriage!) is one of these young woke teachers who throws around words like "justice" and "colonialism" like they mean something to her. She knows no history (or economics for that matter). She has never traveled anywhere and so has no idea what the vast majority of the planet is actually like.
I once asked her if the indigenous peoples of Britain deserved reparation's and if so, from whom. She was too ignorant of the history of the British Ilse's (or Europe itself) to even understand the point I was making. I appalled her recently by stating that were I a black American, I would have prayed my great great great grandfather would have stowed away on a slave ship had he not been brought here forcibly. I am pretty sure most black Americans would eventually agree should we drop them into the burbs of Beira, Mozambique for a few weeks.
We periodically have a few protestors on our town square demanding the removal of the "traitor's" statue in front of the courthouse. They are usually earnest looking middle age women occasionally accompanied by their metro-looking husbands. I usually will speak with them - pointing out my military service, my father's, and grandfather's in the two World Wars, and the service of my great great uncle at Cold Harbor and Petersburg, and another who fell leading a Brigade at Gettysburg - both of whom served in the Army of Northern Virginia. I site my pride in all of them, and ask what they have done for their country that entitles them to attempt to erase part of my history.
It is almost always a useless exercise because they are too ignorant to even feel uncomfortable by their parasitic existence.
