Monuments and Myths

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Ken Burns: Our monuments are representations of myth, not fact
Our most venerated monuments represent a mythology. While we may hope the statue represents our highest aspirations of what America can and should be. It also can be a reminder of where and how far we fall short.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video...6c2_video.html

Ken Burns CW doc has indeed become a part of our nation's myth, all history being basically myth. Burns' take has a lot of Lost Cause content. Shelby Foote for instance.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by nailer

Ken Burns CW doc has indeed become a part of our nation's myth, all history being basically myth. Burns' take has a lot of Lost Cause content. Shelby Foote for instance.

I've thought about that, the series needs a redux to address that, and maybe fill in other events that didnt get some attention as well.

[Chicks]

Petition seeks to replace confederate memorials with Dolly Parton in Tennessee

https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...ee/3192286001/

Yes!

[donquixote99]

Perfect!

[Chicks]

Princeton to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from school over racist history
University president cites ‘thorough, deliberative’ process to reach decision amid nationwide movement

https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...m-name-removed

In a statement, Princeton’s trustees said they had considered “whether it is acceptable for this University’s school of public affairs to bear the name of a racist who segregated the nation’s civil service after it had been integrated for decades”.

It was, they added, “a question … made more urgent by the recent killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks, which have served as tragic reminders of the ongoing need for all of us to stand against racism and for equality and justice”.

[Pio1980]

Background and context to understand the issues:
https://www.wbrc.com/2020/06/28/rela...emoval-statue/

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by nailer

Ken Burns CW doc has indeed become a part of our nation's myth, all history being basically myth. Burns' take has a lot of Lost Cause content. Shelby Foote for instance.

Ken Burns: Confederate statues celebrate a false …: https://youtu.be/sOwrd2kRQcA

[Chicks]

Richmond orders removal of Confederate statues on city land

https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/07/ri...erate-statues/

The mayor of Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues on city land, saying he was using his emergency powers to speed up the healing process for the former capital of the Confederacy amid weeks of protests over police brutality and racial injustice. Within hours, a towering statue of a Confederate general was hoisted from its base.

[bobabode]

Good riddance. These horrible so-called 'monuments' don't belong on public land anywhere. If they were paid for with private funds, those cretins should get the 'melt' value. At most.

[donquixote99]

Max Boot explains what the defense of monuments is really all about:

But everyone knows that what he is really defending is not “our freedom” or “our history,” as he said on Friday, but, rather, “white power” — the words uttered by a Trump supporter in a video that the president himself posted on Twitter and later deleted but did not disavow.

Above is last line of this column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...ource=facebook