No. of Recommendations: 5
Does "acknowledging both" mean tearing down statues?
Depends which statues. The statues of a defeated (and now non-existent) nation are fair game. So Jefferson Davis should probably go. Statues are memorializing. Washington? First POTUS? He should probably stay. As long as we don't mythologize him.
The "woke" left aren't the ones wanting to edit history. The far-right want Jefferson removed from the textbooks (in TX?) because he was -apparently- too leftie. A few extreme left want Jefferson statues removed because of his link to slavery, which I don't agree with (and most on the left don't). But they don't want the history suppressed. Quite the contrary.
Though I do believe one or two Jefferson statues were removed from state facilities (NY?). Probably an overreaction, but I do get how African-American activists might find such offensive. At the federal level, given he was the architect of our government, it would probably be inappropriate to remove them (or bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial).
Most of our Founders were slave owners. Maybe all of them? Not sure. They were monied aristocrats and land owners, mostly. And their revolution wasn't entirely altruistic (i.e. self-interest since the King was mostly taxing them, Redcoats were housed on their lands, etc). They managed to rile-up the masses for their benefit.
