JFK, Ted, Joe, and Mitch

You have to love how awards are given out in the United States. Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans has been announced as the winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. The Kennedy Library Foundation gives this award to honor people who demonstrate courage like those Senators in the Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage.

Let's start with the easy part. John F. Kennedy wrote very little, if any, of that book. Ted Sorensen was the actual writer. So, Kennedy accepted an award for work that he had not done.

The book was not on the list of finalists that the selection committee had sent to the Pulitzer board. JFK's father, Joe, pushed a friend of his to get others on the board to vote for the book. So, it won.

Mitch Landrieu received this award for removing Confederate statues from New Orleans. He did this to appease a majority of the residents in New Orleans. We are rewriting history to buy votes in this nation. We are renaming parks, schools, and highways in an attempt to deny the Civil War. When this kind of things happens in other countries, the United States condemns those actions. When it happens here, we give those responsible for those actions some kind of award.

So, Mitch is getting an award based on a book not written by the author from the family of the man who got an award for writing a book that someone else wrote. I guess "credibility" has lost its meaning.