To the editor:

Another heinous brick in the heinous woke progressive wall. The point of the port marker landing monument is not to memorialize those poor souls whose lives ended in transit in mid-Atlantic waters. The point of its sponsors, the UN/UNESCO and I daresay not just a few of its local co-conspirators, parallels the driving force behind education today, and that is namely, the delineation of who are the oppressed and who are the oppressors.

This delineation however is not meant to lift the oppressed. There is political power and personal profit in their pain. The delineation is to cow the “oppressors.” Cowed by guilt, even people who know better will say nothing to oppose woke nostrums.

The wall builders must cherry pick facts to suit their narrative while omitting and or deriding a wider and often contrary set of facts that destroy their narrative and subvert their mind bathing techniques. The object is to build their wall any way they can from any incident real or imagined, such that no one can see anything but their wall and in so doing internalize only what the wall builders allow you to see.

Though approved for placement, we do not yet know the final details of the monument. Let’s hope the monument has one blank side. The blank side can be symbolic of what is not said, what is never said.

Slavery has existed everywhere and reaching back beyond antiquity. No one holds the high moral ground in this historical context. Nary a culture has clean hands regarding slavery.

The Europeans arrived in this hemisphere and found this institution existing in various forms of grotesqueness. Oddly the people currently labeled as oppressors were they only ones in the world to deride slavery and backed that sentiment with their blood and treasure to end it.

The British, the French colonies and the U.S. put an end to the slave trade, while those Africans losing their cash cow recoiled.

Illustrating the political basis of the monument, if the UN and local white saviors are so anti-slavery, what are they doing about the over 700,000 black Africans in bondage in several countries in Africa at this very moment? And while there are nearly two hundred destination sites for monument markers in the New World, why are there no origin sites where slaves were held captive before being sold to Europeans by their rival black captors in Africa?

Over one million Europeans were captured and enslaved through North Africa; some 380,000 Africans were landed in the U.S. Why does the UN have no plan for memorializing capture and destination sites for European slaves of Africans?

Why does the UN have no plan to denote origin or landing sites of African slaves in the fertile crescent and beyond to the east? Will the UN step up and denote the castration sites where African slaves were rendered eunuchs for bondage to eastern masters?

There are myriad ways of viewing the world and history. Stop adding bricks. Don’t vote woke.

George P. Cooper
48-A Sherman Ave.