Quote:Can't say that I really blame BLM for wanting to remove the statue honoring Andrew Jackson.

 

"In addition to his legal and political career, Jackson prospered as planter, slave owner, and merchant. He built a home and the first general store in Gallatin, Tennessee, in 1803. The next year he acquired the Hermitage, a 640-acre (259 ha) plantation in Davidson County, near Nashville. He later added 360 acres (146 ha) to the plantation, which eventually grew to 1,050 acres (425 ha). The primary crop was cotton, grown by enslaved workers. Starting with nine slaves, he held as many as 44 by 1820 and later held up to 150 slaves, making him among the planter elite. Throughout his lifetime Jackson may have owned as many as 300 slaves"

 

"The Hermitage plantation was a profit-making enterprise and Jackson, demanding slave loyalty, permitted slaves to be whipped to increase productivity or if he believed his slaves' offenses were severe enough."

 

TJBender has your answer. Also, in Germany the concentration camps where unspeakable horrors were committed upon innocent people are all still standing. Why? Because they want future generations to know what happened and they be a tangible reminder of what should never, ever happen again. I visited Dachau when I lived over there and it's a somber place to be as well as a powerful sight to behold. When you drive by it the high walls are still there with the razor wire and you walk through the same gate with the sign reading, "Arbeit macht frei". Google present day images of it. It's been 15 years since I was there and I remember it as if were yesterday. And that's not the history of my country.

 

That is why destroying monuments of the past, changing names of cities, schools, etc., can be dangerous. People need to stop looking at flags, monuments and other historical stuff as symbols of oppression and hate (or even pride) and look at them as what should never be allowed to happen in this country again. 

Quote:"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

-George Santayana

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