05-15-2017, 12:02 PM
(05-15-2017, 11:51 AM)Millhouse Wrote: These kind of protesters are proving why these statues down south should be taken down. Now if it is a statue at a battlefield site, then I am against it completely. But other statues in cities or parks like this, so be it.
See, this is where you get into the muddy waters, though. The land and the statue was donated to the city for the park. The gift to the city was for this purpose, with this statue. If this is what the park was intended to commemorate, then there is a whole other issue there.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
