Of Leadership, Racism, Lynch Mobs and Trial By Media

Roger Simon of PJ Media opined in a column, the current US Representative to the United Nations and former Governor of South Carolina would make a great President.  

But if character matters, should, then Governor, Nikki Haley even have her current job, after capitulating to the "Lynch Mob" that demanded the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the South Carolina Capital Grounds?  

Isn't this singular action, THE DIRECT PREDECESSOR to the removal of ALL CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS?  Didn't this singular action empower the Socialist Left's current rampage against history, who's only end can be (in this order): 

1. To delegitimization anyone even tangientially associated with slavery, 
2. To end the ELECTORAL COLLEGE, giving states with disproportionally large populations (e.g. New York, California, Illinois) de facto control over the Presidential Elections, 
3. To delegitimize Donald J. Trump as POTUS and 
4. To destroy the Constitution of the US and the ideal of "more perfect union."  

Isn't giving in to the uncontrollable wants of a hot tempered mob (in this case) to remove a statue EXACTLY THE SAME as supporting a lynch mob, or worse, to justify the Muslim Demand of ANY ACTION to "defend" the name of their prophet against the slander of a cartoon?

• If the cause was justified, shouldn't then Gubernatorial Candidate Haley have addressed it on the campaign trail, before taking office?  
• Shouldn't the newly elected Governor Haley have addressed the Confederate Battle Flag issue after taking office?  

What I see in Governor Haley's actions are the moves of an opportunist politician, who'd rather remain a popular figure, than take an unpopular stand on the issue of being Manipulated by the White Guilt Cudgel.  Here's why:  When the NAACP, SPLC and other Liberal Groups who purportedly represent Black Americans decided to be opportunists and use the Dylan Roof shooting to try to incite a race war as a White Guilt Cudgel, trying to make ALL white people feel guilty for hating Black Americans, she folded.  

Haley is no more of a leader than President Abraham Lincoln.  Lincoln did not believe in equal rights for the Negro (the Latin word for Black or Dark) Race and would not even waste any political capital, addressing the Abolition of Slavery, until after Lee and the Confederate Armies were defeated at the battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the War Between the States.  

How is trying to remove history (heritage) and casting guilt on the majority of a country's citizens by calling them "Racists," different from the Discrimination that Black Americans experienced before the Civil Rights Movement?  It's not.  It is the formerly oppressed minority discriminating against all White Americans, 

none of which EVER OWNED A SLAVE. 

America was founded by Christians, as a Christian Nation.  The Constitution and declaration of Independence references this not because we wanted a national religion, but because the benefits of a Christian Culture included civility.  Christianity's true adherents have the ability to forgive as well as  the spiritual gift of self-control.  Today, it has become fashionable to denigrate the Christian Religion, and to try to destroy both the Philosophy and Culture of Christianity.  Our country has come "full circle," embracing the dark side of our human nature, which is despotism.  Rather than forgiving and forgetting the This is what Alexis de Tocqueville described when he wrote the following passage:  "When these men attack religious opinions, they obey the dictates of their passions and not of their interests. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a peHHople who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?"

As a Southerner (whose most famous War Between the States ancestor was Union General, Ambrose E. Burnside), I'm tired of the worn out generalization that you (privileged white Southerners) all owned slaves.  Pardon me for interrupting your moral victory party, but only the richest plantation owners owned slaves.  Most farmers in the south were small family operations.  The War Between the States ended over 150 years ago, with the Union being preserved, against Constitutional Exceptions to break away from it.  Slavery has been outlawed for nearly as long.  As for my family:

1. My Ulster-Scot paternal ancestors came to America after the war's end.  
2. My maternal ancestors came to the McIntosh coast of Georgia, about 100 years earlier, as indentured servants to pay for their passage from Scotland.  
3. Once again, only the richest Southerners with plantations owned slaves.  My ancestors were farmers, they owned only enough land for them, their families to work, and later, for sharecroppers to work the land.  

To me (and many other Southerners), the Confederacy and its battle flag are equivalent to the Declaration of Independence and the Gadsden Flag.  It's a rebellious,"in your face" statement to those who would rule over and against us, that we might heed a call to arms again, if circumstances against us become dire.  It's Governor and Presidential Candidate George Wallace, telling Michigan voters in 1972 "We don't need any pointy-headed politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives."  It's part of the reason why Donald J. Trump was elected as President of the United States.

Most "White" Southerners got over racism about 50 years ago.  In that time, the "N-word" has been removed from the vocabulary of most decent people and especially white people.  The only place it is used anymore is among blacks, when insulting other blacks.  We've elected a dark skinned bi-racial Arab African American to be President of the US.  Twice.  Despite his Communist Views, his complete lack of ANY qualification of be the Chief Administrator of the Law and Despite the fact that he chose to enforce laws that helped his causes and to not enforce any laws which did not help his causes.  Many of the older generation, with their prejudices, have died off.  And "Equal Rights" (and even preferential treatment to "equalize opportunities for minority racial populations in America") have been around for 50 years.

We believe that Dr. Martin Luther King was correct in saying that people should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.  Most Christians, who practice "loving our neighbors as ourselves," don't see skin color differently than we see hair color.  If we have anything left that someone could mistake as Racist, it's our problem with cultural behavoirs, (allowed and encouraged by goverment programs, that cost us money and involuntary servitude due to debt and) that erode our cultural values.

While Dylan Roof's vision of starting a race war was horrific, hateful and flawed, was it any different or less incendeary than "the reverend" Al Sharpton's whipping up lynch mob protests in Sanford, Florida and Ferguson, Missouri, Former President Barack Obama's speech, with it's line about "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon (Martin)," or his Department of Justice ignoring black on white voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia or putting a "bounty" on the head of Police Officer Darren Wilson for shooting Michael  Brown (in self-defense)?  These words and actions were ALL DESIGNED to create racial tensions ( a cold racial war) and even Lynch mobs (a hot racial war).  The Media Apparatchik of the Democrat Party has been only too helpful.  They are guilty of stirring up trouble and trying to incite a racial war.

Which leads me to my final point:  If a person violates the law, he must be tried according to the law, and not in the media and court of public opinion, which is in essence, a Lynch Mob.  While Dylan Roof got his day in court, the News Media had already hyped the case so much as to make finding an unprejudiced jury almost impossible to find.  While the crime was horrific, reporting on anything other than the facts of the crime (e.g. interviewing witnesses on camera) prejudices any potential jury pool that might judge him based on the merits of the case that a prosecutor would need to convict the accused.  Without impartial witnesses, an accused defendant might go free because of a mis-trial, based on a prejudiced jury pool.