Calling Traitors Traitors

 GEORGE FLOYD, amond his many other tangible and heroic accomplishments, which shall sadly remain forever unknown to him, is his inadvertent awakening within the United States of America a knowledge of the true nature and place in history of the short lived but highly influential Confederate States of America. His death triggered a national storm and fury of protest, and a conversation about racism in America, and its historical underpinnings. He reminded us what a horrid bunch of hypocritical traitors the southern Christian slave driving rebels were, in short. We modern Americans, in our zeal to promote "southern heritage", often overlook the obvious: that the CSA, slaves or no slaves, racist or otherwise (nearly all nineteenth century Americans, including Abraham Lincoln, were "racists") was a bunch of outright traitors, treasonous, traitorous rebels who became a foreign country and enemy combatant of the United States, albeit only for four years, certainly long enough to do considerable damage to their former country, our country. American folklore has twisted history and reshaped the Civil War into a romantic, noble struggle of worthy adversaries, of noble cause against noble cause. Nothing could be further from the truth. The american civil War was nothing other than rebellious, traitorous treason. Southern sympathizer descendants like to point to "state's rights" and "southern heritage"; states's rights to do what? Own slaves? Southern heritage of what" Rebellion and treason against one's country? George Floyd has inspired the most widespread tattoo removal fad in American history; confederate flags are coming off forearms, buttocks and bosoms in astounding numbers, as people finally begin to get the point. The tats are turning magically into American flags, bald eagles, and other imaginative motifs, since tattoos are notoriously difficult to actually remove, having been put there to stay. The racism behind much of the confederate flag tattooing requires brainwashing.The central moral here is, as Jefferson said after being edited by Franklin, self evident: do not get tattoos.Skin is sufficiently appealing unto itself, and needn't be augmented or covered with 'art", but merely washed often.For those disposed to ignoring good advice, try this: never get a tattoo expressing love or loyalty to any particular person, place, or thing.human passions area s transitory as the midwestern wind in early spring. Better to display hatred; it least that passion is a bit more enduring.An overwhelming high percentage of people who get tattoos want them removed later in life.The process of removal, it is well known, is laborious and painful. If the confederate flag can go out of style, anything can.