[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by mtlee024

So you are now the great emancipator. You don't have the right to tell me, or anyone, what we should know about our history. I want to know it all, otherwise we will make the same mistakes. If you had it your way, I guess you wouldn't even teach history. As long as race is used as an excuse to make bad or no decisions about your life, you will always lose and racism will not go away. As long as you used race, injustice, or whatever to burn, loot, and hurt other people you are the problem so it will not go away. Instead of removing something about our history, why not add something. All I see is all these people, you included, tell us all of the problems, but I don't see any useful solutions. Certainly, tearing down statues, burning businesses, looting, hurting people and taking over city blocks are not solution. Or, I ask you , are they?

Most decent and reasonable folks...don't want them destroyed.

They're too valuable as a learning & teaching moment...to do that.

Just take them off of school grounds, courthouses and other prominent public locations, put them where school children can make field trips...and learn the actual history behind those statues and monuments.