Statues & remembering the past

Hi,

I think this is fine as long as it is after one generation, so that the emotional scars have a chance to heal a lot more, and the memory is not so strong.

But in the meantime, I almost agree with you, although history has been ugly in many places, and (for example) in Brazilian text books they hide the 16th and 17th century as much as possible except the usual the Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English came, they saw, burgled and some left! But for all intents and purposes, from my memory of it, too much of it was wiped out.

America has the same issue ... for over 300 years it was all "invisible" ... understandable since there were no books, or details about it, but several writers, and films have suggested that the corruption of the American Government in its controls was way out of order, and took the law into its own hands and used it to steal land given some foreigners which was done so these areas could be populated, only to have them be stolen by rich land barons that could afford the posse to steal them! And we have not even gotten close to the extermination of a lot of the native Americans ... because they were "savages".

I don't think we need "statues" to remember there ... what we need is to have the history books open up their American quasi/fake religious ideas and bring out some of the ugliness ... that was there, and was hidden as much as possible. And this was visible in the late 60's around the Kent State thing for me ... how the ROTC and the NG when they created the circle around the Rathskeller (where I worked!!!) and they would touch you everywhere to make sure that you did not bring in something or other, and you should have seen how they frisked all the women ... it was not only embarrassing, it was harassment, and abuse! But it is almost similar/same as to what we see in some Police Departments recently, where the folks that get hired are simply folks that think this is a shoot'em up game and that people are just another critter to aim at and shoot! And their attitude is not very good ... WoW used to have these servers that amplified a lot of racial attitudes ... and many kids/folks still use those comments, and we haven't even discussed the names of the "guilds" and some player names! That's even worse! Yeah, it's a "free" society, and sometimes, these decisions are important ... but memorials, by nature are a problem ... but it all becomes how much we want to remember and why!