At some point, crisis after crisis has to make us all a little loopy. Today might be that point.
At some point, crisis after crisis has to make us all a little loopy. Today might be that point.
Howdy folks, it’s time to play… WHEEL… OF… DISASTER!
Let’s get right to it. Give the old sinister circle a spin and see what comes up.
Click click click…
What will it be? Raging global pandemic? Spreading economic collapse? Erratic, ineffectual and traitorous president? Ongoing social unrest? Murder of Chicago children in unchecked random violence?
And it’s … it’s …
Destruction of civic monuments. A good one! Johnny, a little background if you please.
Thank you, Neil. Along with peaceful protests following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis came anger directed at monuments to the slaveholding South.
First confined to Confederate generals such as Robert E. Lee, eventually far more laudable historical figures like Ulysses S. Grant and George Washington found also themselves toppled.
Thank you, Johnny. Let’s get the round started. For $50, answer the following: On Friday, the president of the United States issued an executive order related to monuments. Did he;
a) resolve to address the festering institutional racism that sparked these attacks on public iconography;
b) form a committee to investigate how the federal government collaborated with the defeated Confederacy to steamroll the rights of its newest citizens;
c) attempt to knit up our unraveling rule of law by assuring citizens that we are all part of this grand if flawed American experiment; or
d) promise to prosecute “to the fullest extent permitted” anyone caught damaging a public monument or statue?
Suzy! “Umm… ahh… I’ll have to go with ‘d,’ Neil.
