Said it before in different words:
If your understanding of history relies on a statue or a series of statues, then you need to just stop talking about history at all.
Removing statues is NOT erasing history. It's removing statues. History is still being taught. The books are still in print. The original documents are still in the museums and archives where they were put, precisely so that actual documentation of our history could be preserved for future use/consideration.
Stop with the nonsense about removing statues being an act of removing our history. It just isn't. Most people don't even know who sculpted any of those statues. The artists are part of the STATUE's history. Most people don't know what year any of those statues were erected. The year is part of the STATUE's history. Most people don't know the actual official names of most of the statues. The names are part of the STATUES' histories.
These statues are, for all intents and purposes, not historical at all. They represent prominent personalities who existed at one point or another in our history, but the statues themselves have no importance of their own.
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