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Statue-Toppling -- Ignorance run Amok

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Are there no limits to ignorance? Are they teaching any truth at all in schools anymore? Apparently not real history -- only Howard Zinn's jaundiced view, ignoring the "promissory note" (MLK) in our founding documents supported also by those who had inherited slaves, and generally freed them. Or perhaps they weren't taught to read, and couldn't read the name on the statue to the man who fought to free slaves and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. Which of these "social justice warriors" who dishonor him has done more worthy of honor? In their narcissism they may well think they are deserving of statues to themselves -- "legends in their own minds." WASHINGTONTIMES.COM Protesters topple Ulysses Grant statue in San Francisco Protesters on Friday toppled a statue in San Francisco of former Presiden They are just as deluded as John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Lincoln who imagined himself a justice warrior, and who also ...