Exactly what I was thinking. You would have made an excellent president.

Very reasonable.

Ive thought the exact same thing. I live in Richmond VA. They should be in a museum not on the most prominent street in our city. Whats ironic is that our previous Mayor, who was black, was ok with them staying up. He wanted new ones added to better reflect our city's history.

Or apply the idea that you give everything outside of you all of the meaning that it has and relinquish the ridiculous idea that you are threatened by a statue of a dead person.

Only if America made sense, Marianne. But, it holds on to injustice, fear, and hate. So, chaos and destruction is the only actions it can produce.

Sure, display the relics of our ignorant past in a museum BUT replace them in the streets & squares with life-giving TREES. Forget graven images. I’m an artist. Sculpture that lives should be temporary just like life on earth,

I think the Mt. Rushmore National Memorial should be returned to the Lakota Sioux so they can remove the faces from Six Grandfathers (the original name of the mountain). Knowing what we know about Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, & Roosevelt, they should not be memorialized.

Agreed. Statues don't always have to represent positive attributes. They can serve as lessons of shameful episodes. Erasing the negative aspects of a given history is to deny it occurred.

Thx for opposing your will on areas you will never visit.

No one needs to hear from white people right now about how to "handle the confederate statue issue in a positive way." Firstly, it's presumptuous & obnoxious for us to suggest that Black ppl aren't already "handling" it in a way that's positive for them. There is no secondly.