Not so surprising when you look at how things were 99 or 80 or even 50 years ago.
Of course, politics fuels a lot of what's going on now, but given that monuments went up and streets were named back in the segregation era, it's not surprising that sooner or later there would be agitation to take down the statures and rename the streets.
Why? It’s history. When a child looks at a statue of Robert ELee and asks “mama who is that” a mother has a chance to tell a child about a war that freed the slaves. How a country split in two and brother fought against brother in the bloodiest war this country has ever known. How holding human beings is wrong and freeing them is worth fighting for.
now we are allowing people to era e that history and those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. It’s like the Arabs tearing down the statues of Egyptian king in an attempt to erase history, or the Taliban destroying the Bamiyan Statues in Afghanistan. It’s ignorant, and it cheats future generations of a chance to grow and learn