In tearing down history, the acts themselves become history. Years from now our progeny will look back and wonder about this moment in history. Just as people of this time now look back and wonder about the witch hunts of Salem. “What were those people thinking, could they have been that uninformed and misled?” This ignorance is being recorded now as it happens. The broken and crumpled statue of Durham, viewed in a museum years from now, will be proof it really happened. That alone should guide future generations to avoid the mistake. But it won’t.
‘Just as people of this time now look back and wonder about the witch hunts of Salem.’
not an apt analogy; no one was hanged or crushed by stones at Durham...