If you’re the type that gets offended at every Miss Black America pageant or Black Entertainment Television because there’s no Miss White America or White Entertainment Television, you’ve already lost this battle. It only makes you and yours look like bigots.
A black person can stroll the grounds of the State Capitol and see dozens of statues honoring white people and none honoring their kind. If it takes one harmless statue like this to give them a feeling of inclusion, it is a small sacrifice.
If you think a statue honoring blacks is racist, you should see what goes into the school textbooks nowadays. Wait until the thousands of schools, bridges, highways, airports and government buildings go up across the country honoring Barack Obama happens - and it will because he’s the first black president. This same sort of scene is going to be played out dozens of more times and if a handful of white idiots stand out there and protest it, you’ll get no sympathy. It’s smarter to let blacks have their moment of inclusion because that’s exactly how most black people perceive this.
I agree!!!