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Sound absurd?
Currently, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi stands on the front lawn of the old Mecklenburg County Courthouse in downtown Charlotte. The Historic Landmarks Commission is considering a proposal to make the statue a permanent fixture there. The chairman of the commission supports the proposal, since Gandhi was “an attorney that fought for justice.” The Charlotte Observer adds that Gandhi led a famous march against the British salt tax in colonial India just “two years after the (Mecklenburg County) Courthouse opened” in 1928.
OK.
It’s just too bad that America has produced no famous tax protests or lawyers that fought for justice against the British.
But wait, I recall a famous tea party in Boston (closer than Mumbai) followed by Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence in a city dubbed a “Hornet’s Nest” in a state whose defenders were so immoveable their British redcoat enemies suspected their heels were shod with tar; a lawyer named Thurgood Marshall that won a court decision ending racial segregation in NC schools; and a native born son that became President of the United States and took Oregon from the UK after declaring “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Pineville native James K. Polk (pictured) also happened to be a lawyer.
Non-violent, civil disobedience, civil rights activist Gandhi never set foot in Charlotte. Martin Luther King trod the Queen City’s streets many times.
India is the world’s largest democracy, a great nation and a friend of the United States, yet maintains a caste system. Their inspiration is an America that just elected a Black man president. Yet, too many American artist products of our brain-washing universities are only inspired to apply their talents to honor non-Americans.
Gandhi was a great man.
America was and is a great country but won’t be for long if we don’t instill enough pride in our country in our own to erect monuments to our own, we won’t be for long.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
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