Confederate Monuments

I have confidence that when I flip on a light switch the light will turn on. I have more confidence that unjust penalties won't be tossed around once this life is over. I can't explain the details behind either of those things. As for Dr. King, I admire him in spite of and because of his flaws, and I think he's a fine example of the need to judge actions instead of people. Everyone is flawed, and historical events and actions should be remembered.

On that note, do you know who I just decided there should be statues of? Hitler. Stalin. Mao. McVeigh. Bin Laden. On and on. I would much rather millions of people see their angry or deranged faces glaring down at them everyday than for someone to forget about them, their actions, and the circumstances that led to their infamy, at the wrong time.
 
Not a confederate statue, but still amazing.

https://apnews.com/article/julian-b...ve-americans-7ee0bf82bcc5fef13b269e40feba47d1

Atlanta’s leaders are rethinking plans to install a statue representing a Native American man lauded as a “co-founder of Georgia” following a report on the project by The Associated Press.

The Chief Tomochichi statue was conceived as the centerpiece of a park celebrating civil rights-era heroes. Its placement is being reconsidered, however, now that city council members have a fuller understanding of historical facts about the Muscogee man who signed a 1733 treaty launching the Georgia colony, Councilman Michael Julian Bond told the AP.

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation, whose 93,000 citizens are descended from Georgia’s original inhabitants, wasn’t consulted before the $300,000 statue was unveiled pending a move to Atlanta’s new Peace Park. Tribal historians were dismayed, calling it inappropriate and disrespectful.

“I don’t believe the city wants to be in a position where we are offending the Muscogee people, but we don’t own the statue now,” Bond said Thursday. “We have not accepted the statue, which is being donated to us, as yet.”

The council’s 2020 ordinance approving the park empowered an oversight committee to review every proposed element for historical “accuracy and authenticity,” but Bond said the city’s law department discovered last week, after inquiries from the AP, that its members never officially met in this capacity.

A review of scholarly works on the Muskogean-speaking Creek Indians would reveal that Chief Tomochichi had been banished by his people, lacked authority to give away land, and was known for delivering Native American enemies into human bondage. Tomochichi’s promise to capture runaway African slaves and trade them to the British alive or dead is immortalized in Article Six of Georgia’s founding treaty.

“They didn’t really discuss that at all. They were like boosters for the park,” said Bond.
 
Robert E. Lee coming down.

Allen Toussaint going up.

Good morning.

Photo by Louie Ludwig


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