John Kelly gets it wrong with slavery ‘compromise’
Gen. John Kelly added more fatigue news to his growing resume of exhaustion with an attempt to present U.S. slavery as a historically appropriate mistake.
Apparently, 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly died in Afghanistan to allow his father the right to disparage Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) and then pitch slavery as a glitch in time.
“I would tell you that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man,” Kelly told Laura Ingraham a conservative radio and television host, on her show Monday night.
“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. But the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War, and men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had them make their stand.”
Kelly’s major chutzpah involved current criticism of past history makers.
“I think we make a mistake, though, as a society and certainly as individuals when we take what is today accepted as right and wrong and go back 100, 200, 300 years or more and say what those, you know, what Christopher Columbus did was wrong, 500 years later. It’s inconceivable to me that you would take what we think now and apply it back then. I think it is very, very dangerous, and it shows you how much of a lack of appreciation of history, and what history is.”
Since this country pimps God as a blessed supporter of its historical transgressions, Kelly reasons that our Father who art in heaven offered a wink-wink toward a plantation owner’s rape of a slave.
Kelly creates a God who changes, essentially moves the goal posts to accommodate human evolution.
We continue to shape God into our sinful lives, molding our spiritual father to fit and make all right our transgressions.
Kelly has turned opinions on slavery into a whisper down the line game of history.
When this rewrite finishes blacks will have been the plantation owners with white folk the ones held under lock and key, sold, lynched and mutilated.
Instead of an admission of guilt and poor judgment, some Caucasians continue this attempt to chalk up U.S. acts of inhumanity as hiccups in history.
Such an idea works against everything God-like and God-ly for a God-awful excuse that as man evolves, God changes his demand for love.
That’s why U.S. leaders and residents involve themselves in this grand conspiracy of killing God. Such a death, that horrific homicide will oblige U.S. mistakes.
Following, Kelly’s lead, one wonders what a compromise on slavery might have meant for the United States.
Historians know that slaveowners pressed President Abraham Lincoln about an expansion of slavery into new territories while Lincoln countered with expressed support for allowing slavery in states where the practice existed.
“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists,” Lincoln said.
Lincoln hoped to confine slavery then allow for an eventual slow eradication. He even considered rounding up all slaves and sending them to Liberia.
Officials feared Lincoln might push for abolition in states where slavery thrived and those concerns started a secession panic.
If they had not jumped the gun and bolted from the United States alliance, which started the Civil War, who knows, blacks might still be picking cotton while Kelly, President Donald Trump and other Caucasian men might be sexually assaulting, lynching and torturing slaves.
The Civil War allowed Lincoln a change of heart and mind, as he eventually developed a belief about the evils of slavery.
One hundred fifty years later, we certainly have not claimed complete freedom as systems employ incarceration, racial profiling and Jim Crow tactics to continue discrimination.
White supremacists have become emboldened with hate speak toward blacks, Jews and the LGBTQ community.
Kelly expressed a dangerous sentiment, actually supporting Lincoln’s initial desire to let slavery remain part of the U.S. fabric.
Lincoln got slavery wrong then right while Kelly made another miscalculation about evil.
God is my witness.