"books and not statues exist for the preservation of history. A statute is a celebration of a person not a historical record of them. No person intending to study history will be satisfied with the study of statues."
In this article, I pierce my ambivalence about statutes, to examine 3 arguments against pulling them down:
That this re-writes history
That this is not objective
That this is judging the people they commemorate with the values of our times, not theirs.
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