Speaking of the removal of statues:
Watching the lady in Durham, NC climbing the Robert E. Lee statue.
Suppose she fell. Whose fault would that be?
Hers?
The police (who were standing by, but did nothing)?
Or would Trump get blamed for that? And if so, how?
The cops were in a catch-22. If they moved in and tried to stop anything, it's Racist Cop Time again. Police not doing their job right.
Can't have that.
But if the statue fell on somebody, where were the cops to protect the public? Police not doing their job right. Can't have that.
I can see why Confederate statues or monuments of the Founding Fathers get people upset (slave owning white racist pigs!)
We don't need anything glorifying slavery, but ignoring history or pretending it never existed isn't right either.
We can never learn from the past if we just forget it.