“Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. Not because there aren’t people who want to go much further than removing Confederate statues and would use success as a jumping off point to their next cause, but because many Americans aren’t ideologues. A statue of Teddy Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drew an angry crowd demanding its removal (and for Columbus Day to be renamed) last October. This week, the world is witnessing all the satisfyingly destructive ways.. Last night, protesters in Richmond, Virginia, toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis.Earlier in the week, they dragged one of Christopher Columbus into a pond. The pushback against the removing of statues was swift. What I fear is the hatred we see in real time in 2017 on social media and in our political rhetoric. They are a form of white supremacy. But some states such as North Carolina, where this week angry crowds tore down a bronze statue of a soldier, have laws preventing local governments from removing the monuments without higher approval. We need an overhaul of how we commemorate history, writes Thomas J Price Public sculptures and statues have been used to signpost what power looks like. A bronze monument of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England, met a watery demise (it’s since been fished out). That sentiment is unfortunately common in today’s politics. This is, … It's just blatantly wrong." Removing controversial memorials isn't enough. Earlier this week, a group of protesters involved in Black Lives Matter demonstrations spray-painted a statue of Winston Churchill in historic Parliament Square, adding the words “was a racist” under Churchill’s name. I don’t fear 150-year-old statues of old dead white men. Some states began passing laws preventing cities from removing the memorials, and … Always have been,” … And so to continue to kind of shift or offer a revisionist look at the Civil War is wrong. The push to remove Confederate statues and monuments has gained traction in the wake of the racially motivated Charleston church shooting in 2015 that left nine African Americans dead. Over the weekend, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the unfortunate mistake of saying that to remove the statues was to "sanitize history." It’s also wrong. How do you remove a racist monument?
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