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dale blanker wrote:

Middle Age Russ wrote:Divisiveness in our society has taken hold. Instead of people looking for commonality and the embodiment of noble ideals in their fellow man, we now find ourselves vilifying everyone who does not share our worldview. Taking / tearing down these monuments and renaming everything is simply the latest symptom. By focusing only on each person's flaws, who is worth honoring with any sort of memorial? On the other side of the coin, what lessons of history might remain unlearned if they are not honored and their actions remembered? Regardless of who erected these statues and for what reasons, I choose to look for what ideals the honoree exhibited that might be worth honoring and/or emulating.

Well I agree with you I think, but it seems like we normally honor those who do great things, have helped develop or support the constitution, founders of our country, veterans who fought to preserve the system, etc. I'm not sure how Confederates got into that mix.

I certainly don't believe Confederates should be vilified because they were trying to preserve the only lifestyle they knew. The real problem with their statues is that it honors or glorifies a dark place in our history. Talk about erasing history is silly unless you've got the right kind of DeLorean.

The protesting in Charlottesville was really not about removing a statue or history, it was just an excuse for some fringe groups to rally - and they have the right to do so. Too bad the anti-protesters got involved in violence. They should have let the Neo-Nazi have their say, no matter how ugly, and called it a day.