You know what would really remind people about the tragedies of the past and not require memorializing them with public statues?
Fucking GOP-controlled states not teaching that slavery was a good thing. Or those same states banning their racist redefinition of CRT to make children unaware of why the Civil Rights movement happened. Maybe we could, I dunno, teach that racism and slavery are unequivocally bad and the Civil War was a direct result of that, and that the following 150 years of American history is the result of not dealing with that?
You know what would really remind people about the tragedies of the past and not require memorializing them with public statues?
Fucking GOP-controlled states not teaching that slavery was a good thing. Or those same states banning their racist redefinition of CRT to make children unaware of why the Civil Rights movement happened. Maybe we could, I dunno, teach that racism and slavery are unequivocally bad and the Civil War was a direct result of that, and that the following 150 years of American history is the result of not dealing with that?