(August 16, 2017 at 1:53 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The way to show monuments to the slave trade is in a museum in context. So don't destroy, them move them to somewhere where it is pointed out the evil they represent and how the US used to tolerate that sort of thing.
They need to be a warning from history, not part of everyday life.
... and especially not as a reminder that many would just as soon fight to the death defending that evil in a day and age where the same blacks are still subject to discrimination.
At that point it becomes a warning: if we ever gain the upper hand ...
