We Wouldn’t Be Americans If Not for “Thugs”
To make sense of our present, perhaps we should understand our past.
Yesterday, shortly after midnight in Washington D.C., in a tweet flagged for glorifying violence, the president referred to the protesters in Minneapolis as “thugs.”
It’s a heavy term to be used, especially as we saw a video of one of the first acts of destruction occur by the hand of a white man dressed in expensive protective gear. Not what usually comes to mind when one thinks of a thug.
I have watched and read as people all over the country clutch their pearls, gasp and ask what happened to our country. The answer is nothing. Nothing happened to our country. We were raised like this. We’ve always been this way. We just forgot.
We’ve redefined patriotism so many times it now only applies to our own personal beliefs. We’re selective when it serves our purpose. Everyone that defies our selective beliefs is an unpatriotic heathen.
As we can’t seem to make sense of where we are now, perhaps we should go back to where we came from.
Exactly 250 years ago, citizens who were frustrated and tired of being oppressed and treated unjustly, rioted in the streets. They had no guns but the officers sent there to keep them in line did. One…
