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Gee, I dunno. Maybe it's because you responded by leading off with this reprehensibly bullshit "question:"I've already acknowledged as much and its why I used them as an example in the first place. How you think I don't get it is beyond me.
"So to be clear, you thought in living color was simply a platform for the wayan brothers to spew gay hate?"
Ok, as concisely as possible:However you ignored the reason for me bringing them up in the first place. Will you address that point?
I support the taking down of prominent, public, civic monuments to those who took up arms against the United States of America in support of the institution of slavery, particularly in towns and cities where a significant percentage of the inhabitants, many (but not all) descendants of those enslaved who were bought and sold at will, wish them to be. Conversely, I do not support the continued clvic deification of these violently secessionist and traitorous generals and politicians, no matter whatever other fine qualities they may have possessed.
I do not support taking down the statues of our founding fathers simply because they owned slaves. Here, the context of their times does not trump the vision of the Republic they bequeathed to us. They gave us the United States of America. They were never traitors to her.
As for Columbus, well, I can't really support the idea that we should honor him because he "discovered" our continent.. He didn't "discover' shite. It was already here, and so were the tribes that populated it. Listen and then sing it with me, "God Bless Vespucci Land."
In sum, two of the above three instances are bad history, and don't deserve our present day official veneration.
Nor do I look back fondly and simply chuckle benignly at the ignorantly destructive caricatures of gays, because IT HELPED TO HURT THESE PEOPLE and to delay their acceptance by the rest of us as, you know, full fledged human beings who didn't deserve to lose employment or be beaten up on the street simply because of who they loved. Sorry. I probably ignorantly laughed at some of those sketches, too. Still and all, I don't hold anything against the Wayans in the present, so long as they have learned and progressed beyond that ignorance, just as I, hopefully, have.