charlottesville antics

[Delirious Biznasty]

statues and monuments will always be portrayed as a positive thing, that's the nature of them. i don't think they need to be kept even in museums or galleries. i DO think that history books and public education needs a serious overhaul with how it handles the atrocities of american history, it needs to portray them as atrocities and not just products of their time, and then we have no need to preserve it in the form of monuments to terrible men whose names, for the most part, do need to be lost to history.

I disagree heavily. These men should be remembered, to learn from their mistakes. To erase them from history would be to assume that the horrible things they did, did not exist in the first place. 

Can you tell me exactly what you mean as "portray them as atrocities" part? I remember the trail of tears, slavery, (japanese-internment camps were talked about for a day in middle school, I thought I should note that too) and the holocaust taking up a major part of what was taught about history in my school.