RE: Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues
September 12, 2017 at 1:33 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2017 at 1:35 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(September 12, 2017 at 1:29 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: We certainly can remember and discuss the darker aspects of our past, but, if we don't have to, do we?
Honestly, in your experience, has a statue of a civil war general caused you, or your kids (if applicable), or your spouse or your neighbors to "discuss the darker aspects of our past"? I can't say I've seen statues encourage that kind of discussion, apart from field trips to monuments that kids/highschoolers already do as part of history classes. Museums also have a plethora of exhibits dedicated to horrible parts in both the US' and the world's past, that do a fantastic job of confronting visitors with darker parts of our history without needing memorialized statues of individuals on a pedestal on public land.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
