In an infinite universe, a guy like this, and his appearance at this event are statistical inevitabilities

The event was the MTV Video Music Awards. Isn't that ostensibly a gathering of performers, producers and various other recording-industry types that focuses on handing out statues or plaques or whatever to acknowledge various colleagues' exceptional contributions to the furtherance of the infecting what's left of our culture with ever uglier insults to the human spirit making of cool videos and music?

Oh, get with it, will you? That's so possibly-still-America-rather-than-irreversibly-post-America.

This puke-fest is now an orgy of West-hatred with a few histrionic screeches and boneheadedly and endlessly repeated minor-pentatonic "hooks" tossed in as a nod to the purported reason for convening.

And, in that spirit, the organizers brought onstage one Robert Lee IV, a Disciples of Christ "pastor" and adjunct professor atAppalachian State University.

He was brought up to publicly flagellate himself for being related to his nineteenth-century namesake and he obliged his handlers impeccably:

The social justice sermonizing at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday took an interesting turn when the impresarios trotted out an actual descendent of Confederate general Robert E. Lee to tell America that it still has not repented of its racist "original sin."

Though we expected the LGBT flag-waving, the condemnations of President Trump, and Katy Perry being Katy Perry, the presence of Lee's descendant — Reverend Robert Lee IV — took virtue-signaling to a whole new level.

A pastor at a United Church of Christ in Winston-Salem, Robert Lee IV has been making the rounds lately to tell everyone how deeply sorry he feels for his own "white privilege" and how the events in Charlottesville made him reflect upon his heritage.

"As a white male, I knew I couldn’t do justice to what was going on," he said of his speaking out to HuffPo. "But I can begin the conversation by acknowledging my white privilege. You have to say that enough is enough. We have to be part of the solution by speaking up, instead of being part of the problem with our silence."

"We have to speak up and speak out in God’s name," he said.

The day for speaking out in God's name came for Lee this Sunday night at the VMAs. Here's what he had to say:

My name is Robert Lee, and I am a descendant of Robert E. Lee, the Civil War general whose statue was at the center of the violence in Charlottesville. We have made my ancestor an idol of white supremacy, racism, and hate. As a pastor, it is my moral duty to speak out against racism, America's original sin. Today, I call on all of us, with privilege and power to answer God's call to confront racism and white supremacy head on.

Good little West-hater that he is, he didn't stop there. Went on to shower the pussy-hat people and the BLM thugs with accolades:

"We can find inspiration in the Black Lives Matter movement, the women who marched in the Women's March in January, and especially Heather Heyer, who died fighting for her beliefs in Charlottesville," his speech concluded as he invited out Heather Heyer's mother to give her own speech announcing the creation of a non-profit in her daughter's name.

Lee did not condemn the communist Antifa that were also present on that horrific day in Charlottesville, and who have committed more than their fair share of violence in the age of Trump.

Let us unpack the hypocrisy oozing between the lines in Lee's speaking up in "God's name" here. The Black Lives Matter movement has regularly called for violence, particularly against police officers, with one of their own adherents murdering five officers in Dallas, and has promoted forms of black nationalism and segregation (see black only safe spaces). The Women's March not only featured the likes of pro-Sharia Linda Sarsour, but also that of Planned Parenthood, what is undoubtedly the most racist organization in America today, killing more black people than Robert E. Lee (or his descendants) did in all their lifetimes.

The challenge before us is to find it somehow possible to forgive this slug posing as a human being for his role in the ruination of American culture. After all, the Savior to whom he gives lip service expects it of us.