I think it is being overdone. I think taking down statues of American civil war traitors Is great, but not of those who while imperfect men of their times, they still produced this country we live in, like Grant, Washington, etc. They did their part, and we have to do ours in fixing what’s still here, but not by throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We do not need to respect southerners who fly that flag, and love their traitors. We don’t. But we need to understand those men of their times who fought for our freedom and fought and won a war against slavery in the end.
The latest instance in Baltimore where a crowd took down a Columbus statue in the harbor Is food for further thought. They took it down because he “enslaved the indigenous”. Gimme a fkng break. They want to attach certain 20th and 21st Century values to men of the 15th Century who lived in a world of scorbuto, scurvy, etc. Columbus was an explorer, a man who dared, a man who had a hand in us being here in this land. We can’t blame him for practices of generations before him all the way back to the Romans and way before for “enslaving the local conquered”. That’s what they did and how they lived. They didn’t know better. The Romans used to kill their enemies, cut their heads off, and put them on poles around Rome to show what happens to anyone who dares go against The Man. Yet, millions visit every single left over relic of that empire and admire those things that should be admired. Are we going to forget the cunning victory of the Greeks in Troy, or forget it ever happened because they burned it down?
We have to know history, to understand where we are and how to act TODAY..
What does it prove to take down Christopher's statue? The Greeks said “pan metron ariston”, which means act with measure.
http://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/baltimore-protests-christopher-columbus-statue-trnd/index.html
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