This whole attitude of "let's forget history and destroy everything connected with it" is quite distressing. It's much like European countries that outlaw anything connected to Nazis. How are we supposed to avoid the mistakes of the past if we cannot publicly remember the past? Oh yeah, the idea of learning from the past is passe when we can learn all we need from the State.
Every time I hear that people want to hide history, like this and the plaque over the water fountain, it makes me think that if the Blacks continue to erase this history, then it is going to be like the Holocaust(sp). There are so many people today that insist it never happened. I have a college grad nephew who did not know Schindler's List was based on a true story. He knew nothing about it.
Do people not believe that maybe in 30 or 40 years, other people are going to insist there was no slavery. If we continue to hide the confederate flag and everything else, can we say there was no Civil War? I think the NAACP better start thinking. Good or bad, it is history.
TC