Tearing down confederate monuments does not erase history

[SteaminWillieBeamin]

2 hours ago, UNTFan23 said:

So you're saying things like this don't belong in a protest?

 

Um. Yep. Already said that. Shall I schedule time to say it again?

[NT91]

How about Hood County. Will they change the name of the county?

John Bell Hood CSA

[SteaminWillieBeamin]

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

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“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

  -- Dr. King

 

 

Edited September 26, 2017 by SteaminWillieBeamin

[GTWT]

I disagree with some of the things associated with Dr. King, but I would support your right to erect monuments to his memory.

[meangreenacct]

9 hours ago, GTWT said:

I disagree with some of the things associated with Dr. King, but I would support your right to erect monuments to his memory.

Are you suggesting that there is an equivalent amount of controversy between erecting a statue of Dr. King and confederate statues erected in the Jim Crow segregation era? 

 

If so, I have truly seen it all now...