Quote Originally Posted by Dawg2003 View Post
The line is different for everyone, but I personally don't hold with desecrating and taking down statues of Washington and Jefferson. They were certainly complicated historical figures like all historical figures are. But the statues of them weren't put up to glamorize the fact that they owned slaves. Confederate statues I can see taking down because those statues were put up as a middle finger, and those people did actually promote slavery.
This is my general sentiment too. We can't erase the founding fathers because they weren't perfect. In fact, they drafted the constitution in a way that allows for future generations to amend it. They anticipated change. They welcomed it from the very start. My oldest and I talk about this some and what it would've been like if we lived in the time of slavery or the heart of the civil rights movement. I'm honest with him and tell him that I hope id be on the right side of history, but given the status quo of the times, I can't be confident that I would view things like I view them now. People's surroundings, the current economy, operational standards, viewpoints in general on segregation, etc... were all so different that there's no telling what we would've thought or done in those times. Now we're educated and can see the lack of humanity for what it really is.