05-15-2017, 12:25 PM
(05-15-2017, 12:21 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Maybe but the statue & park was literally donated 100 years ago in 1917. Segregation and the South's version of apartheid was in full swing then, with many Civil War veterans still alive. At some point the statute for keeping a statue around just because it was donated has to end, and I think it ended decades ago in this case.
Completely valid opinion, and I don't disagree with you, but this is the argument that a lot of people are having with this.
"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
