A Flag That’s Still Worth Dying For
Despite being hit four times by bullets, Carney was able to bring the U.S. flag safely to Union lines, where he collapsed.
It took 40 years for Carney’s battlefield heroics to be rewarded, but in 1900 he was awarded the Medal of Honor in Boston.
The first Black person to receive the award, he explained his heroics by simply saying, “I only did my duty.”
Can you imagine how Carney – a former slave – and the other patriotic Black men who enlisted in the 54th and 55th would react today to the protests of Gwen Berry or the constant complaints of the BLM crowd and Critical Race Theorists?
America’s not perfect now, and it never was.
But BLM and the others are fixated on the past – on the shameful stuff that our white ancestors did to blacks that we regret and are ashamed of but can’t do anything about today.
That shameful stuff includes the horrors of slavery, 70 years of legalized racism in the Jim Crow South, the de facto discrimination and segregation in the North and white race riots like the Tulsa Massacre of 1921.
Activists need to acknowledge all the good that has been done to make America a better, fairer, freer country that lives up to its founding ideals.
Blacks in America live far better and freer lives than Carney’s generation could ever dream of living.
Yet they constantly disrespect the flag and the country it represents, which they claim was founded on racism and is still systematically racist.
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