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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
They should replace every statue with a statue of a significant black leader of the civil rights movement.
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SHould we (Canada) take down Nellie Mclung statues and replace them with Native heros?
I think history being messy is important. A sanitized version isn't great. A statue of Lee should be left and context created around it to explain his role and the acts that followed.
By sanitizing history you miss the detail.
Malcolm Gladwells revisionist history podcast has some excellent episodes on racism and the civil rights movement and how it has been misrepresented overtime.