Charlottesville

[Susan Higginbotham]

(08-14-2017 01:22 PM)Gene C Wrote:  I can't think of a different "flash point" to substitute, so yes let's get rid of all those nasty monuments and flags.
While we are at it, lets remove all those Martin Luther King street signs and other flash points for people of dissenting opinions to even things out.
Everyone should be happy and feel good then, and that will solve the problem right, since we have removed the flash points.

And lets forget about teaching and encouraging Godly principles and personal responsibility, as that will offend to many people, and let a superior all encompassing federal government of some kind fix the problem.

In a slightly different vein, anyone remember reading "A Wrinkle In Time"?

I'm a bit confused as to why someone who rails against the "all encompassing federal government" would decry those duly elected local officials making the difficult decision about what monuments should remain on public grounds.

Personally, I have no strong feelings about these Confederate statues; if anything, I lean on the side of letting them remain. But I'm honest enough to admit I would probably have a different perspective if my ancestors had been brought here in slave ships.