Removal of Confederate Monuments

[JMadonna]

(05-01-2017 12:54 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Politicians have made bad decisions based on race here in the U.S. for nearly 400 years, and it has cost us dearly.

Here, Here. In the heart of Detroit there stands a 12 foot long representation of Joe Louis' fist. It was erected by Mayor Coleman Young, not as a remembrance of Joe Louis's life or accomplishments but as a symbol of the toughness of blacks in Detroit.

It's a real eyesore for anyone contemplating doing business in the city and since Detroit's bankruptcy, cartoonists often redraw it as an arm with his palm out. Yet no politician dare remove it under threat of the "race card" being played.

One hundred years from now, when no one remembers Joe Louis - they'll probably get the courage (like New Orleans) to take it down.