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re: George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, Francis Scott Key....

Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:38 am to
Posted by stomp
Bama
Member since Nov 2014
3705 posts
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:38 am to
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You think books, with slave owners names in them, will be allowed?



Yes. History books aren't memorials honoring slavery. They are tools used to educate.

There are no memorials of Hitler in the U.S. (that I know of) but everyone learns about him in grade school.

I do worry about the wrong people's monuments being targeted.
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 11:39 am
Posted by Cobrasize
Birmingham
Member since Jun 2013
49682 posts
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:41 am to
I don’t agree.
Posted by Robot Santa
Member since Oct 2009
44450 posts
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:47 am to
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I do worry about the wrong people's monuments being targeted.


That genie has already left the bottle and it isn't going to go back in.
Posted by TidalSurge1
Ft Walton Beach
Member since Sep 2016
36467 posts
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:52 am to
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Yes. History books aren't memorials honoring slavery. They are tools used to educate.

Do you believe statues and memorials of Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, George Washington and Francis Scott Key commemorate and honor slavery? Do you believe they promote racism?
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 12:00 pm
Posted by TideWarrior
Asheville/Chapel Hill NC
Member since Sep 2009
11848 posts
Posted on 6/22/20 at 12:16 pm to
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Yes. History books aren't memorials honoring slavery. They are tools used to educate.



Wrong actually as most books used in the public school system are still selective to fit the narrative of how people want this country to be viewed. Yes they show slavery as an atrocity in this country yet forget to go in depth that our founding fathers for the most part were just as guilty but yet we promote them for committing treason.

No different we celebrate those who hit the shores of this country and settled it but yet ignore in those same books what they did to the Native Americans but later when it does not hurt the narrative they talk about the atrocities committed by Jackson to the Cherokee and still later ignore what we did when our great country expanded west.

So no the books do not educate just create a narrative to promote one version of the events.
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