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To: redgolum
At this point? Nothing. It has already happened.

They torn down Washington's and Jefferson's monuments? Can I get a link to that?

334 posted on 08/12/2017 2:04:12 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

They never went up.

Go to a reservation.

There was one on a Sioux reservation in Nebraska that got quietly removed.

They would have never allowed a Jefferson memorial.

Was it a big to do? No. It wasn’t protested, just down quietly as they remodeled a park.

The difference is that while there was a lot of cultural mistrust, it was done in a “well, that is theirs” type of way. No one came to the next town over, off the rez, and demanded it.

But the time for worrying about statues of people most living people won’t recognize is long past. I hate it. More than I can explain. But if you showed a picture of Washington or Jefferson to an average grade schooler today, they wouldn’t know who it was.

They simply don’t care, and do not hold the same cultural appreciation of the history, because it isn’t their history.


347 posted on 08/12/2017 2:11:28 PM PDT by redgolum
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