Babbling Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke somehow feels native tribes people have a deep love and respect of the Confederacy. The United States must keep its Confederate memorials for the sake of the natives!
Employing racism to excuse racism, Zinke referred to first tribes people as “native Indians” and attempted to draw a false equivalency between Union commanding officers and Southern ones. Americans should remember both Grant’s heroic work as an extremely drunk General in our Civil War, AND the fact he ran the most corrupt administration in American history… right up until about that time Orange Julius appointed Ryan Zinke.
I do not see how these folks who may well never have been to India benefit from the display of memorials to people who invaded Pennsylvania.
Via TPM:
“Where do you start and where do you stop? … If you’re a native Indian, I can tell you, you’re not very happy about the history of General Sherman or perhaps President Grant,” Zinke said during an interview with Breitbart Sunday, referencing the Union generals’ monuments around the U.S. despite their roles in creating federal policy that caused great harm to native Americans.
While Zinke has maintained this opinion about Confederate monuments since at least July, tensions over memorials for Confederate soldiers has risen significantly since August when a counter protester was killed at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in the city.
Zinke said removing the statues will inhibit the U.S. from being able to “learn” from history.
“I think we should never hide from our history or erase our history. I think we should embrace the history and understand the faults and learn from it. But when you try to erase history, what happens is you also erase how it happened and why it happened and the ability to learn from it,” Zinke said.