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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has honored, or wishes to memorialize, Malcolm X who was a separatist and a terrorist and Marion Barry, who was a crook and racist fool.[/quote]

Right.  And they should be free to do so.  Virtually every important religious, business, political, etc... leader on earth has a mixed legacy.  There are very few Ghandis and very few Hitlers in this world.  For most leaders, it's fine to recognize the good, recognize the bad and try to move on and try do better ourselves. [/quote]

Some are worse than others.

Most important religious, business, political leaders weren't responsible for the slaughter of over 600,000 Americans.  Most important religious, business, political leaders of the modern world weren't hellbent on creating a white supremacist state that treated blacks as subhuman and chattel property to be exploited as the central economic machine of a nation.  Those are not things that anyone should just gloss over with some glib "yeah, well nobody's perfect" in an attempt to just equate their deeds with anyone else's.

There's a pretty huge and stark difference where it comes to Davis and the leadership of the Confederacy as far as I'm concerned.[/quote]

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