Charlottesville, VA

Why do I write about Charlottesville, VA and the answer for me is easy, I live in Virginia and Charlottesville is one of my favorite places to visit and my beautiful state. Yes I am a Virginian and proud of it. What happen in Charlottesville is just really clear to me, yes I know what went down, and yes I know why. But having leave in Virginia all my life and being an African American in a Southern state,where a lot of its citizens still wave the confederate flag high for all too see. This has been this way since I have been here and we people of color in this state have always look and kept it moving and why you would say, because something like a flag, or a statue, something that can not hurt us or really stands to remind us of the past, is just that a thing of the past. These confederate solder statues are of past confederates, the confederate flag is a past flag, so it is part of this country's past, a part of history. We learn in school that the past can only hurt us if we don't learn from it, and apparently some people are not learning from the past, such as that violence is not a solution, it only wreck lives and create havoc. I have never cared about the confederate flag flying, as long as it was not forced on me. I did not care about these statues all around Virginia as I look at them as part of history that we were taught about in school. Charlottesville was the home of Thomas Jefferson who owned many slaves, who had relations with a slave and had many children with this slave. Charlottesville to me was a sign of the times, this kids were interracial, so when I always visited Charlottesville, with its beautiful hills high and lovely blue ridge mountains view that is so breath taking, especially when you fly out of their airport and you sit back and look out the window at these mountains and think how God did such an incredible job with this master piece. I love this wine country side and little personal bakeries, and food eateries. This city is so warm and welcoming, so for this tragedy to have happen here was just a sign that some people will not let it go, that hate, that hate and that passion to continue to hate in a world full of so much beauty. We have a past in this country, so why not leave it there, some people would rather repeat the past then try to erase and create as God did. It is so sad that how some people can turn around their belief of the almighty higher power, to say that it is teaching them hate. What bible or scripture you are reading from sounds like the devils version, which it just may be as some say they do not believe in God. Anyway as city saying that they were going to remove a statue should not have come to what it did. I was out of town when it happen but happen to have to travel back from Indianapolis and had to come through Charlottesville and stop and get my car that I left and pick it up. What I witness was kindness towards me and great conversation, it was not of anything ugly words or gesture. I said nothing of what had happen, but I had a conversation with a white girl and how we were both virgos are both days a couple days apart and are age was about a decade apart, how alike we felt at that moment as we had a connection that had nothing to do with our different skin color, wow.