>Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky didn't want to remove the offending >statues because that would only serve to sanitize history. I agree >with that viewpoint.
I'd be sympthatic to that argument if a) we weren't talking about monuments to people who were leading an armed insurrection against the government to preserve the institution of slavery (I mean, seriously? I didn't see any statues of Vidkun Quisling when I visited Oslo) b) they weren't on public land in a place where normally people are being honored for their actions instead of a museum, and c) the bulk of them weren't erected LONG after the Civil War and many hadn't COINCIDENTLY been put up at the start of the civil rights movement. FWIW, if we are voting, I'm for removing the quotes or moving them to the 'alternate' (-o) fortune database. --Ken
