Monument law is yet another overreach (NC)
Posted: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:00 am
By Tom Kirby-Smith
... Recently, the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting the removal of monuments by local governments; the purpose is to show reverence for the past.
But is everything from the past worth hanging on to? ...
Some may find the spectacle of the statue of a Confederate soldier in the courthouse square an ironic reminder of how passionately attached we human beings can be to a wrong-headed cause.
Others, whose ancestors were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean like cattle, traded like horses, terrorized and lynched, and segregated and denied civil rights for a century, will not appreciate that soldier in the square ...
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