New York’s City Council, having already removed the statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall, now wants to take down all statuary of George Washington and Christopher Columbus.
This is part of a campaign to get rid of monuments honoring anyone who owned enslaved people or profited from slavery.
“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
On the other side of the scale are black leaders such as Malcolm X, who did considerable good in energizing African-American citizens but whose long history of blatant antisemitism continues to have a negative impact today on black and other radicals.There must be a single standard of evaluation when it comes to taking down monuments and street names, difficult as it would be to agree on any principled standard.He did a great many good things, but his failures were monumental and costly.
He is personally responsible for the deaths of many Jews who could have been saved had Roosevelt simply followed the law rather than pandered to the antisemites in Congress and the State Department.Thomas Jefferson’s views on slavery were complex. Abraham Lincoln’s views on the rights of African Americans were likewise complicated.Woodrow Wilson was a man of peace but a virulent racist.
Nor can academic historians necessarily be trusted. Too many of them use and abuse history to promote their ideological, political, and racial agendas.Websites should be provided near the monuments in which conflicting views could be shared and debated.
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