Posted on 08/28/2017 12:57:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s not just about Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
The national soul-searching over whether to take down monuments to the Confederacy’s demigods has extended to other historical figures accused of wrongdoing, including Christopher Columbus (brutality toward Native Americans), the man for whom Boston’s Faneuil Hall is named (slave trader) and former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo (bigotry).
Historians interviewed by The Associated Press offered varying thoughts about where exactly the line should be drawn in judging someone’s statue-worthiness, but they agreed on one thing: Scrapping a monument is not a decision that should be made in haste during political fervor.
“If we do this in some willy-nilly way, we will regret it,” said Yale University historian David Blight, an expert on slavery. “I am very wary of a rush to judgment about what we hate and what we love and what we despise and what we’re offended by.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nwherald.com ...
Don’t they mean WHITE historians? Hmmmmmmmmm
I wonder if this is why the Founders DID NOT want us to be a democracy??? Chalk another one up to their amazing intelligence in giving us a Constitutional Republic and not a Democarcy!!!
All statues of anyone who, in the opinion of anyone, ever did wrong, must be brought down; ergo, no statues permitted.
That's why we have statues of them!
Gee, they must be Nazis or something./s.
“If we do this in some willy-nilly way, we will regret it,”
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Like everything else the left has done to this country.
“Yale University historian David Blight”
The left will brand him an “alt-right Nazi” before this hour ends.
Like Grant, Lee was an honest soldier.
Very true...very true!!!!
What?! I’m going to make a statue of David Blight then destroy it! Raaaa!
Soul searching? That’s a laugh. Soul searching means an extended period of consideration not a mad dash in all directions at every statue like you mainlined all the coke in an episode of Miami Vice.
If we actually lived in a Democracy,this country would not be recognizable right now. We certainly would not have 50 stars on the flag. If some of these libtard states such as California exited as they seem to want to so bad, they would collapse without the DC Federal Government. Their “democracy” would be no better than Greece economically and demographically Mexico.
I have a hard time recognizing this country right now. Our Republic has been gradually eroding for decades.
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We’re having a monuments dispute here in my town. I wrote a letter to city officials urging that instead of removing the monuments (which weren’t even statues and were just honoring a somewhat odd historical figure who lived here at one point and local Civil War dead from families still in town) we have a program of historical tours and additional informational placards to put them into context. We have a lot of good historians here and even the minister who is leading the protests could be part of the committee to develop the program. This would benefit everybody, both black and white, Southerner and non-Southerner.
Somebody leaked the letter to a website, and now I’m waiting for my house to get burned down...
It’s really tragic when simply wanting to deal with reality makes you feel like a target.
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