Author's Remarks:
This poem stems from a response I made to a comment I received from a reader of an earlier poem I'd written and is entitled: "Why sycophantically fawn over people you really don't know and never will, beats me!"
The commenter had actually written in response to that poem and I verbatim quote: "Tradition. We all need heroes. Links to the past. National symbols. Lots of reasons. What's the problem?" End of quote.
After my distinct response to the above comment the said commenter actually wrote the following: "Luvvit!" Which is quite self-explanatory. It was then that I decided to do a full follow up poem that's based on my remarks to the aforementioned commenter. Decide for yourself as this individual has done. Below is a continuation of my Remarks in addition to those already included in this new poem.
Hypocrisy in overdrive as no European country is in the hands of any race that is apart from white Caucasians and all non-whites there essentially constitute a minuscule minority.
I could actually go on and further trash your supposition as I'm thoroughly well researched in what I write and actually will never depart from that stance. But I can't help but smile at times when in their bogus "arguments" these critics either conveniently overlook their own odiously noxious past or with a rather contemptuous shrug of their shoulders declare it was a long time ago, that the past cannot be altered and one should simply, just aptly, learn from it. Really? An Academic for many years of my life and a qualified journalist as well, I truly do recognize a cop out when I see one as well as really vile disingenuousness.