[sparklite2]

Al Jolson, Stephen Foster get to be unpersons in the new, sanitized America.

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As a child during WWII, I got the impression that Hitler was another name for the Devil, and that Woodrow Wilson was a saintly president. His open racism doesn’t seem to be surviving our Great Leap Forward as some universities remove his name from their buildings. Temporal context seems to be going by the boards.

[Pelham]

The history stripping won’t stop. People think that charges of racism will stop at the point where they think it should. But the charge is infinitely malleable, which is why those who play with it are playing with fire.

George Washington was perhaps the largest slave owner of his day. Jefferson was in a similar position. Even Abe Lincoln will come under fire. People who think that they are immune to attack are sadly mistaken. It’s already started.