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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tearing down a statue is just so superficial. Tearing down our history is next in line. Just so sophomoric, political and without any sense of the message you send to the world.

It's like being back in middle school reading these arguments.

BTW, slavery was not a US thing...it was a global thing. Awful. Horrible. Global thing.[/quote]

This whole thread is bemusing to me. Black man and women are told to get over it, slavery happened a long time ago (and all over the world no less!), segregation decades back. Even though it is as real and tangible as knowing that the great grandmother that caressed you was a whipped slave, and that your father was spit on and punched for daring to attend a white school, and that your neighbor was chocked to death for selling loose cigarettes . No siree, there is no structural racism left, only a few bad apples.

After all everyone knows, even an immigrant off the boat, that the thing to be in America is black. You know, affirmative action and all those other perks.

And yet here we are, very flustered and upset about ......a statue. A statue of someone who lived 300 years back, who we have no real tangible connection to, who we publicly admit was a slave driver but privately think that was a minor indiscretion, a sign of the times.

Well a statue is not just statue. A statue is a symbol and a reminder of what you hold in high esteem. That's why people all over the world topple the statues of their tyrants.

And OUR history is only our history if it truthfully represents all of our experiences, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable. Otherwise it's not our history, it's your myth.
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