Matt Davies for June 21, 2020

That old metal should be put in a melting pot at last.

Don’t forget to dump the Dumpster himself in there!

t’s unfortunate that the ☠resident has neither humility nor compassion. There will always be supremacists, but hopefully, from now on they will be kept in check, far far away from our government. We really need to put the propaganda and disinformation — e.g. Fox, OANN, etc — in that landfill too.

There are some text books allowed in some states the need tossing as well.

At least send the metal statues to a foundry for reclamation. Slogan: They dealt it, now we smelt it.

Biases and prejudices should have been the first obsolete things pushed in, the statues and other objects are reflections of them. Unfortunately, people cling to their hatreds.

My paternal grandmother’s middle name was Jackson, apparently after Stonewall Jackson under whom her father served in the 35th Georgia. I agree with the cartoon.

Trump speaks of “destroying our heritage” when we destroy the statuary ‘honoring’ the Confederacy, and people wonder what the heck kind of “heritage” is a boy from Queens talking about.

But you must keep firmly in mind from whence he came. His father, Fred, was a member of the KKK in New York and, in fact, was arrested by the police at one of their New York rallies. It occurs to me to wonder just what Fred Trump was doing at that rally that caused him to be arrested, out of the multitude that were rallying around the burning cross.

We must always remember, too, that Donnie John idolized his father, and that Donnie John was always playing “Avis” to Fred Jr.’s “Hertz” in the family dynamics of the Trump Family, growing up.

Will we still be able to order General Tso Chicken?

OK, but I really don’t get the “problem” with Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben. There’s nothing disrespectful or patronizing or recognizably “racist” that I can see, and never has been. The logos were always warm and affectionate, more so actually than Betty Crocker or the emotionally distant “Hostess”.

Uncle Ben’s is NOT a monument to slavery, while Aunt Jemima is. All of this has context, and we can’t just jump on some sort of mindless bandwagon of “old black person on product = bad”

Aunt Jemima was a character in a minstrel show that someone would do in blackface to mock and ridicule black culture of the time. Uncle Ben was a real person. An African-American rice grower known for the quality of his rice. There is no reason to take his face off the product, as it is good to recognize his contributions. The only problem is the “uncle” part. There is a racist history of using that honorarium in front of a name.

Interesting. Good to know the context.

When they start dumping bits of paper with a picture of George Washington – - – just toss them my way…..

Sorry dude, but Aunt Jemima created the pancake mix, was proud to put her name on it, was a spokesperson for the company till she died and was extremely well paid. Nothing racist about that.

We need to put more than monuments in the Slavery Landfill.

Put all the banknotes with the face of any US President who has owned slaves.