Uncivil boor
Kelly’s uncompromising lunacy
t might be best for Donald Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly to go back to not being heard, because the more he talks, the more all of us have to question how he ever became a four-star general.
The unbelievably brain-dead and historically clueless comments Kelly made to the equally clueless Laura Ingraham on her new Fox News show regarding the Civil War and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee are just more proof that the American educational system is in dire need of a massive overhaul.
The folks at Fox News have been worked up into a lather over a Virginia church removing plaques that honor Gen. Lee and George Washington. And that was the question that led Kelly to show us how nuts he is.
“I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man,” Kelly said.
“He was a man that gave up his country to fight for his state, which 150 years ago was more important than country. It was always loyalty to state first back in those days. Now it’s different today. it all. The Electoral College? Yep, a slavery compromise. Kelly should pick up Lawrence Goldstone’s book, “Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits and the Struggle for the Constitution” to learn real history, and not His-Story.
Per the synopsis on Amazon.com, “No issue was of greater concern to the delegates than that of slavery: it resounded through debates on the definition of treason, the disposition of the rich lands west of the Alleghenies and the admission of new states, representation and taxation, the need for a national census, and the very make-up of the legislative and executive branches of the new government.”
As Lawrence Goldstone provocatively makes clear in “Dark Bargain,” “to a significant and disquieting degree, America's most sacred document was molded and shaped by the most notorious institution in its history.”
Did Kelly ever hear of the Compromise of 1850? That was an effort to keep the union together, which led to the amending of the Fugitive Slave Act. It also ended slavery in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
But that wasn’t enough. The South wanted to continue the demonic and sadistic system of slavery, and only the Civil War could have ended it.
Then of course, 12 years after Reconstruction, there was the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877, which removed federal troops from the South’s last remaining three state capitals. All that did was re-enslave black folks, albeit without the shackles.
John, you can’t compromise humanity. As long as America kept trying to reach a compromise over slavery, it was destined to fail. It was an inhumane system. Complete abolishment was the only true path.
And all efforts by John Kelly, Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump to present these childish historical revisions will be met with a resounding fury of facts.
That’s how honorable men and women who truly care about America are supposed to respond, John.