Charlottesville Removes Statues of Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson

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  1. Jaybird says:

    They got rid of Sacagawea as well.Report

  2. Burt Likko says:

    I’m on record as to my approval of this development:

    Public remembrances of dead people are signals of honor. Commemorations indicate that in the past, a person did or was something that the community admires in the present. Such cultural signals of approval are often given by a governmental entity. They identify heroes. Not everyone gets them. To pick an easy case, there are properly very few statues of Benedict Arnold in our nation. … I say that figures like Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis do not deserve such honors. Their bad deeds outweigh their merits. … The Confederacy’s leaders deployed their considerable skills knowing that the fruits of those labors would be the preservation of slavery. They do not deserve public honors.

    My opinion with respect to this matter remains the same today as it was when I wrote those words five and a half years ago.Report