Statues are something to look up to and revered… We took down a statue of Sir John A MacDonald because of forced boarding schools for indigenous children:
What’s happening is that Democrats are trying to rewrite their role of slavery, misogyny, Jim Crow, intolerance and hate. All those statues taken down are of Democrats and they can’t abide their constant reminder of their guilty history which carries on to this day. Oh yeah they haven’t changed all that much from when they created the KKK, just refocused their hate, racism and intolerance. They’ve always hated Republicans, that hasn’t changed but now their racism is focused on Whites, Jews and Asians. You see proof of this whenever AOC, Tlaib and their crew get in front of a camera and shoot off their mouths.
No, we shouldn’t be destroying the face of our history, but neither should we celebrate past errors. A statue of Stonewall Jackson in his home town square of Lexington, VA celebrating a great general is one thing, but naming a Dallas TX elementary school after him in 1939 – specifically to show support for white supremacy – is another.
Folks say the Right wants to whitewash history, but the “woke” Left wants to eliminate it unless the person was pure as the driven snow and meets all of their ideas of what a person should be like. It was another time, people thought and lived differently. We can not hold them to our standards of today. How many of your parents and grandparents hold the same view when they were young as you do? Have any racists in your family? Maybe they changed their views but for many of the woke, that makes no difference, they are condemned for all time. Granddad was a hatefull man and a traitor to the cause. He voted for Reagan. And how many of us hold the Left to the same standards in all things? Do you think its proper that certain Democrats in Congress use their information to make money in the Stockmarket before that knowledge is common knowledge? Pelosi does. Yes our forfathers did bad things, they thought bad thoughts. WE need to acknowledge this, but if we just eliminate them from history as some want, then we have no history. Learn from it, grow from it but don’t kill it.
Republicans are preserving our racist history by redistricting black voter blocks and replacing their leaders with white racist republicans who are making laws so they don’t have to count the votes of the people they hate.
If all the statues, monuments and namesakes made to enemies of the United States of America were taken down, and the true history of this Great Nation written properly for all Americans to know, Uncle Sam would not only be alive and kicking, but be thriving. Clarence’s evil twin is as much a liar like the one he serves.
Wait a sec! If Uncle Sam doesn’t exist without America’s racist history, is Bok saying he endorses the argument that the country we know would not have come to be without slave labor?
Statues are NOT “history.” They’re monuments, meant to honor their subjects. You want history? Read a book. Preferably not a textbook since Texas drives that content for the nation.
You don’t have to venerate racists to know that they existed — and the statues were never erected to accurately recount history in the first place. Quite the opposite, in fact. This is not erasing history. This is restoring it.
RAGs over 2 years ago
Speaking of “evil twins”, I think Bok is his own evil twin, each one trying to be more evil than the other.
B 8671 over 2 years ago
If the republigoons have their way, history will be all whitewashed and one sided.
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 2 years ago
Bok’s evil twin is the devil I’m sure of it
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
Bok and the other Trump Disciples crave to live in Pottersville. They are trying to wipe Bedford Falls off the map.
Because Compassionate Conservatism.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Oh fer gawdsake. Ignorance this potent has to be taught, and Bok’s a STAR pupil.
Daeder over 2 years ago
Chip Bok doesn’t know that General Lee was opposed to Civil War statues.
quixotic3 over 2 years ago
So is Bok denying the history of racism in the US, or saying we ought to celebrate it?
hermit48 over 2 years ago
What a bunch of horse pucky.
Patjade over 2 years ago
^^ The Child confuses Liberals and Conservatives with Democrats and Republicans.
Patjade over 2 years ago
Baghdad Bok is resorting to reductio ad absurdum. Another Bok trait.
William Bednar Premium Member over 2 years ago
Actually, the GOP is planning on replacing all the removed statues with statues of Trump.
Ontman over 2 years ago
Can Bok possibly be as stupid as this cartoon….never mind. I answered my own question.
Durak Premium Member over 2 years ago
The loss of an incomplete history and statues to traitors? At the cost of a nationalistic symbol? I can live with that.
GiantShetlandPony over 2 years ago
It’ll be a terrible life if Republicans take over the house and Senate.
davidthoms1 over 2 years ago
Chip! Time for an intervention! THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TRUTH!
Pickled Pete over 2 years ago
Statues are something to look up to and revered… We took down a statue of Sir John A MacDonald because of forced boarding schools for indigenous children:
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/sir-john-a-macdonald-statue-removed-from-kingston-ont-park-1.5475827
1BlackLivesMatter Premium Member over 2 years ago
Great ‘toon! The Libs love their political correctness. Let’s go, Brandon!
grange Premium Member over 2 years ago
It seems that Bok hasn’t a grip on the word “woke”. Refusing to honor slavers is the opposite of expurgating slavery from the history books.
ChristopherBurns over 2 years ago
Sounds like a “conservative’s” dream come true.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 2 years ago
“I’ve come to save the swamp, Sam.”
Kracklin Rosie - “Tolo Dan Nan Galad” Premium Member over 2 years ago
What’s happening is that Democrats are trying to rewrite their role of slavery, misogyny, Jim Crow, intolerance and hate. All those statues taken down are of Democrats and they can’t abide their constant reminder of their guilty history which carries on to this day. Oh yeah they haven’t changed all that much from when they created the KKK, just refocused their hate, racism and intolerance. They’ve always hated Republicans, that hasn’t changed but now their racism is focused on Whites, Jews and Asians. You see proof of this whenever AOC, Tlaib and their crew get in front of a camera and shoot off their mouths.
thelordthygod666 over 2 years ago
No, we shouldn’t be destroying the face of our history, but neither should we celebrate past errors. A statue of Stonewall Jackson in his home town square of Lexington, VA celebrating a great general is one thing, but naming a Dallas TX elementary school after him in 1939 – specifically to show support for white supremacy – is another.
shannon1352 over 2 years ago
Folks say the Right wants to whitewash history, but the “woke” Left wants to eliminate it unless the person was pure as the driven snow and meets all of their ideas of what a person should be like. It was another time, people thought and lived differently. We can not hold them to our standards of today. How many of your parents and grandparents hold the same view when they were young as you do? Have any racists in your family? Maybe they changed their views but for many of the woke, that makes no difference, they are condemned for all time. Granddad was a hatefull man and a traitor to the cause. He voted for Reagan. And how many of us hold the Left to the same standards in all things? Do you think its proper that certain Democrats in Congress use their information to make money in the Stockmarket before that knowledge is common knowledge? Pelosi does. Yes our forfathers did bad things, they thought bad thoughts. WE need to acknowledge this, but if we just eliminate them from history as some want, then we have no history. Learn from it, grow from it but don’t kill it.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Republicans are preserving our racist history by redistricting black voter blocks and replacing their leaders with white racist republicans who are making laws so they don’t have to count the votes of the people they hate.
DrDon1 over 2 years ago
Bok confuses hyperbole with willful distortion. Honesty is not one of his guiding principles.
ncorgbl over 2 years ago
If all the statues, monuments and namesakes made to enemies of the United States of America were taken down, and the true history of this Great Nation written properly for all Americans to know, Uncle Sam would not only be alive and kicking, but be thriving. Clarence’s evil twin is as much a liar like the one he serves.
Wlly Blly over 2 years ago
The statues aren’t gone, and history has not been “re-written.”
Why do you feel so threatened by the truth Mr. Bok?
jader3rd over 2 years ago
The statues aren’t history. Getting rid of them opens up the way to learn history.
Daniel Mishkin Premium Member over 2 years ago
Wait a sec! If Uncle Sam doesn’t exist without America’s racist history, is Bok saying he endorses the argument that the country we know would not have come to be without slave labor?
Rich Douglas over 2 years ago
Statues are NOT “history.” They’re monuments, meant to honor their subjects. You want history? Read a book. Preferably not a textbook since Texas drives that content for the nation.
calliarcale over 2 years ago
You don’t have to venerate racists to know that they existed — and the statues were never erected to accurately recount history in the first place. Quite the opposite, in fact. This is not erasing history. This is restoring it.
ragsarooni Premium Member over 2 years ago
Welcome to the new world order,friends…..
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Bok dreams of racism.
jhayesd31 over 2 years ago
Chip You are so right.
And the Slaves in the south were “Guest Workers”
The weren’t citizens, They were here, They were workers….?
Guest workers. Right!?
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/23/450826208/why-calling-slaves-workers-is-more-than-an-editing-error