Something else millennials never learned in school. Because facts that embarrass democrats need to become memory holes.

Oh like this. Just what does the symbolism of taking a knee really mean?

Yup, I tried

So if Trump took a knee- this is what it would symbolize and it would set off nationwide riots, but if you have a D after your name you can kneel with the colors of a slave trading African tribe and you are caring, thoughtful and righteous.

No, what does taking a knee symbolize? It means one thing for a democrat to do it. It means oppression and racism for your mythical right winger to do it. Unity? Unity? Try posing as a right winger republican and say you believe in Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech, and actually live those values since the day you heard him give the speech and find out just how much unity that gets you. I didn't say pretend to live those values, I said live those values. Millions of "right wingers" have. We right wingers don't look at someone for their race, we look at them for who they are.
Why do democrats persist in dividing everyone into blocks? Gay. Black gay, trans gay, hispanic, gay hispanic, white supremacist (which means all white right wingers and even black right wingers like Clarence Thomas) . Unity? Right wingers have been trying to unify around our common core values for decades and left wingers are unifying around destroying everything we have in common. Let's label everyone, that will prove our unity when they are all neatly pigeonholed by race.

I'm waiting for the Confederate Park. Oh wait, each town used to have one. Oh well if you can lay the Columbus statue's head at his feet and pile up the rubble that people have made of some of these anonymous memorials people will finally understand. The US is not anywhere near as racist as the accusations. The actions of just a few aren't the fault of the millions who don't practice racism. Assigning that blame to all "right wingers" is the very essence of bigotry and prejudice that is so abhorrent to the self righteous.

Still waiting. Still better be really really good.

Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't given your schedule, Mister Important. I was under the impression that here on the Internet, you just kind of have to wait for the other person to take their time to get back to you.

This better be good.

It actually is - it's a breathtaking place to visit.

You're aware, aren't you, that Budapest - capital of Hungary - was occupied by the Soviet Union for about forty to fifty years? Within living memory?

Well, in that time, they put up A LOT of statues to Soviet figures of power. Statues of Stalin and Kruschev, statues of Hungarian commanders who ordered tanks to crush citizens during the uprisings of the 50's and 60's - all these statues carefully calculated to cast their gaze on you as you went to work, went to pick up your groceries - all these awful men, immortalized and built to remind you every day that you are not in control.

And as you know, Hungary is no longer a Communist country. And the first thing they did was they took those statues down.

But they didn't destroy them. And this is what I want you to really listen to.

They set aside a park in the middle of Budapest. They planted tall trees around the edge of the park so that you wouldn't have to see it on your way to work or whatever - you have to go into the park in order to find this. And ALL the Soviet-era statues are there, ALL of them, with plaques that explain who those people were, where their statues were originally found, and putting them in their historical context.

And where there used to be statues of Soviet icons, they put new statues that inspire hope for the future. There's even a touching statue of Ronald Wilson Reagan in one spot, just as a nod to the role America played in taking the Soviet oppression down. They even have one statue of Colombo, of all people, where a Soviet statue used to stand.

Now, question: did the Hungarians destroy their history, heritage, and culture? Did they destroy these statues? Did they devalue their history? Did they seek to erase this from their existence and forget everything they learned?

The answer is no, they did not. They kept them.

But did they solve the problem of having these butchers, these dictators, these bloodthirsty monsters, immortalized and honored and placed with maximum visibility with the express intention of rubbing it in the face of the everyday citizen - our legacy will ever be a part of your life?

Yes. Yes, they did.

And they did it in a way that says "this is who we were, and this is who we are".

So, I look at that, and I ask myself, why can't we have some of that?

Oh hey, thanks for your precious self righteous thoughts. That really made everything so much better. Love and kisses. Don't forget, when confronted with facts you don't like, just act like they're racist.

Oh, waiting, yeah. waiting.