History?
We don’t need to hear no steenkin history!
(The following is a pull quote)*
”But the disruption was no glitch. One of the event’s organizers later admitted the audio had been deliberately turned down, telling the Akron Beacon Journal that Kemter’s discussion of Black history “was not relevant to our program for the day.”*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/03/ohio-barnard-kempter-mic-memorial-day/
Yeah! I saw that and must agree. That's like tearing down statues of Robert E. Lee!
Mary Mother of Christ even when you are right you immediately turn racist. Choosing who gets honored in a public space is nothing like shutting down a speaker you do not agree with.
It's so wrong to edit history to suit a political purpose. Various POVs matter when considering any era.
Statues are not history and taking them down doesn’t edit history. Post Communist governments of.Eastern Europe removed dozens of Soviet era statues. If you want, there is a park outside Budapest where you can go see them. That did not erase the Soviet era from history, and that is not why they were taken down. No one has erected a statue of Mohammed Atta in a 9/11 memorial to "teach history". Or a statue of Timothy McVeigh or Pol Pot. That is because statues are erected to honor people, not teach history. If a government feels it no longer wants to honor Lee, it gets to take down his statue. Rather than erasing him from history, it is actually teaching about his history with greater clarity: his conscious choice to serve evil is not worthy of the public honor of.a.statue.
Doing that is like something you'd see during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
So if China ever overcomes its current leadership and becomes a Democracy they need to leave up all the communist statues, murals, public art?