(August 17, 2017 at 12:08 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: I think I've mentioned my preferred solution on the Charlottesville thread: put up a plaque on the base of the statue acknowledging both his accomplishments and his faults, encouraging a less black-and-white view of history than most people (whether pro-statue or anti-statue) seem willing to acknowledge. The contradiction between fighting for liberty but still owning hundreds of slaves, showing the contradictions inherent in America's historic ideas of liberty.
And given his reference to Harold Washington, maybe there might be some space for a Harold Washington statue too.
Um no, the only place South statues belong is in the context of a museum of what not to do to your fellow humans. Again, you are FAILING to take into account the mindset of those who built them and those who erected them. They were not erected as history lessons but as monuments of value of those men.