MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Re: putting past negative icons to rest

>There in lies the problem, all the stupidity put into a statue... Really? And that statue
>has be3n doing what? Opressing you? And here I thought it was an inanimate object, unable
>to move, walk or talk or even blink.

To those in which their ancestors were affected, the statues being out on public streets or parks are a daily reminder to them....that is when not having to be in a hurry and go about daily business. One tv interview that I recall watching was where a tourist guide at some park, I don't recall which place, indicated that the statue would be better being relocated to a museum instead of being located at a park. I agree with that opinion. Instead of any Gen. Lee tribute statue at a park, how about the statue being moved to a museum and replace statue area with something that provides information such as plant life, or animals that are unique to the specific park......something that does not need to be brought up as a reminder. Leave that to museums or actual US civil war battlefields that took place back then. Unfortunately some of the actual civil war battlefields have now been bulldozed and buried by residential or business properties.

>I had family that actually walked the trail of tears, they were full blooded Cherokee,
>lost some on that "walk" and reparations are there for the taking BUT it happened to my
>ancestors not to me. My actions and choices are my own so I don't need "paid" for my
>ancestors grief, it should have never happened but it did.

Yep. The stuff that will still stand as a reminder: Auschwitz camp, US internment camps (Manzanar in California), what is left of Berlin Wall etc. Some did get justice while unfortunately many others affected were unable to.