How the left remembers and forgets
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is coming up this weekend. Others have written about how this specific event has been hijacked by political correctness. I will discuss how the left nitpicks what is worthy of remembrance and what is not.
I am a docent at LACMA, the largest art museum in Los Angeles. Like Kevin life in Boystown – it’s very lonely there. There are a handful of GOP voters but although we acknowledge one another, we stay under the radar.
LACMA, a proud far left institution, has purchased a very disturbing ‘artwork’; it is basically a full size display of a black man being castrated by 5 masked white men – after being accused of raping a white woman. (I won’t publicize this work. If you must, go to LACMA’s website for details). 50 years ago the artist couldn’t sell or display it here in America. Of course Europe and Japan have been thrilled to shame America by displaying this travesty for years.
The museum, the LA Times, and NPR are all celebrating this most important event – a way to shame and insult America. They who claim to be beyond race are stoking the racial flames, because to be honest, we as a society have moved beyond those awful days of lynching. Today more violent evil crimes are perpetrated by black against themselves or white people. Just look at the murders in Chicago or the black flashmobs. I am not suggesting we create art to teach and inform the public about these events – that is what news media is for.
Which brings me to the whitewashing of 9/11 — within a month of the event, we no longer saw or heard the news reels of the towers falling. The images of 200 people hurling themselves out of the windows of the towers, the awful sounds of their bodies hitting the pavement, have been erased from our memories.
The left is doing its best to erase the evil of 9/11, because they and the Islamists share a common enemy – us. On the other hand, we as a nation have progressed far in race relations – real true honest progress. That dismays the left, they hate that to such a degree that they will go out of their way to shove it back down our throats. They will see to it that although this mythic event in the mind of the artist 50 years ago, the image is shoved into our faces as if this was the news headline of today. Of course in doing so they once again show us who the real racists are.
I will be vocal about my opposition to this ‘exhibit’. I have my response to my horrified fellow docents who will call me narrow and closed minded. I will ask them why we don’t have a piece of artwork displaying the thousands of gay men being hung today in Iran? Why is this issue less worthy of art? Is it because slamming white racists from 50 years ago is so much easier than dealing with real issues that affect people today?
Leah, a tea party, American Jewish mom in Los Angeles
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Leah, thanks for your post. You are not alone! You are one of tens of millions (probably a couple of hundred million, if the truth were known) who believe that most racism today comes from blacks, and that the left is so busy hating America they will go to any length to destroy it. As for 9/11, I think they should show the video of the towers falling EVERY DAY. But the news media made a conscious decision, in keeping with their leftist sensibilities, that those images were too disturbing for the rest of us, and that they would just keep "the masses" inflamed. If we're not allowed to forget 9/11 happened, then we won't have the will to fight the Muslims and the liberals who seek to destroy us. Keep up the good fight. We're with you.
Great post Penny. I applaud your courage in standing up for decency in a place like that. You are a great American.
And also for standing up for the countless gays killed in Iran. The Left's ability to ignore Islam's evil is repugnant, and that they ally with those who repudiate every value they claim to uphold tells all you need to know about their moral character, or more accurately, lack of moral character. Then they have the gall to call us "islamophobic" and "homophobic" as they pat themselves on the back for their "tolerance" and "intelligence."