Several
months ago, I attended a speech given by Paul Gramling, the commander-in-chief
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, to the Northeast Louisiana Brigade of the
SCV at the Lieutenant Elijah H. Ward Camp in Farmerville, Louisiana. In his
oration, Mr. Gramling declared that the hoopla about removing the Confederate
monuments was not really about the Confederate monuments. “We are just the
low-hanging fruit,” he declared. He stressed that the attacks were just part of
a neo-Marxist attack upon traditional American values.
After
I returned home, I contemplated Commander Gramling’s poignant remarks. It
occurred to me that he was right and that the political Left in the United
States wants no heroes except its own. The statues of the Confederate leaders
and their men, in fact, were not the first targets. That dates back to the 1950s
when they began their full-scale assault on the presence of God and Jesus
Christ in the public square.
[1] They, unfortunately, have
been remarkably successful in this phase of their endeavor. How has this
success manifested itself? In the late 1950s, a survey was conducted to
determine the worst problems faced by teachers in public schools.
The Big Three
challenges were: children talking too loudly; children chewing gum in class;
and children running in the halls.
Using
judicial activism, dubious logic, cowardly politicians, and corrupt and
incredibly biased judges, the Leftists have largely succeeded in ousting
Christianity from the schools. What is the result of their success?
What are
the three biggest problems faced by teachers today? Teenage pregnancy, drug
abuse, and violence in the institutions of higher education, including
occasional mass shooting.
That, however, is the subject for another time. The
issue I would like to address today is: What are their next targets?
