Just north of the National Mall in washing, D.C. is the U.S. National Archives Building.  Every U.S. president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has passed by the Archives on their way from the White House to their inauguration at the U..S. Capital.  If our Leaders looked closely at the Archive’s northeast corner, they saw a statute of a seated women entitled “Future,”

adorned with a quotation from William Shakespeare’s, The Tempest.  It warns us:

“What is past is prologue.”

You can’t erase the past!

The definition of prologue is:  a separate introductory section of a literary or musical

The plague of “political correctness” has many repulsive aspects.  One of the most pernicious is groups attempting to re-write our nation’s history based on retroactive application of their political standards.

State and local Democratic Party officials have removed the names of U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from what used to be the annual “Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners.  Jefferson’s role as a slave holder and Jackson’s in the forced relocation of American Indian nations are the stated reasons.  In Frederick, Maryland, a bust of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision, was banished from a public square.

Such actions recall the days of censorship in Nazi Germany and communist Soviet Russia where executed or banished individuals disappeared not only in person, but also in retouched photos and revised book texts.  When we were visiting  Russia and walking through the Kremlin and viewing the copper busts of the prior leaders, I notice that Khrushchev’s bust was missing.  I quietly asked the tour director and she requested that we discuss this later.  As we proceeded, she pointed out later Khrushchev was buried at another cemetery and was not even mentioned in our tour.

There are several recent scenes which the current government is trying to erase from the past.  One is the removal of the bust of one of the great heroes of the past and the world.  This bust was in the White House and was returned to Great Britain under the present administration.  It was the bust of  Winston Churchill.

The second scene was the removal of the Confederate flag in South Carolina by the governor because of a shooting of black people by a white disturbed young man who loved the Confederate flag.  Because of this shooting the Governor removed the Confederate flag and placed it in a museum.  Basically, saying to the world that the flag caused the killing.

It is sad when people become so entrenched with appeasement rather than standing up for the history of the world.  This only shows the ignorance of the people who are suppose to be the leaders.  My only hope is that the next leader of America request that the bust of Churchill be returned to its rightful place in history at the White House.

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