It annoys me when people from the past are denigrated for something which was acceptable then and not that offensive now. I'm not talking slavery. Example, Kate Smith was a hero in Philly for her support of the Flyers hockey team in their best years, so they put up a statue of her. Last year some complained the lyrics to some of the songs she made popular, not wrote but sang, could be construed as racist under today's scalpel/microscope. So immediately the statue gets covered and probably removed by now.
That said every generation has the right to honor or not, anyone they wish. So public statues and memorials are not in perpetuity. But if the people decide they want to give the Statue of Liberty back to France, what then?
It annoys me when people from the past are denigrated for something which was acceptable then and not that offensive now. I'm not talking slavery. Example, Kate Smith was a hero in Philly for her support of the Flyers hockey team in their best years, so they put up a statue of her. Last year some complained the lyrics to some of the songs she made popular, not wrote but sang, could be construed as racist under today's scalpel/microscope. So immediately the statue gets covered and probably removed by now.
ReplyDeleteThat said every generation has the right to honor or not, anyone they wish. So public statues and memorials are not in perpetuity. But if the people decide they want to give the Statue of Liberty back to France, what then?