Delete comment from: Boston 1775
I oppose this memorial for the sheer fact that as we're building memorials to remember the victims of slavery and never forget the scourge and blemish that it was on the fabric of our founding nation, we are systematically also destroying the legacy of our founding fathers by bringing down their memorials in their honor or altering the history of who they fully were, besides obvious slave owners. Let us not destroy the symbols of freedom and western culture by seeking to define them instead as nothing more than harbingers of the institution of slavery. It's unfortunate that they were slave owners or contributed to the slave trade including local merchants like Peter Faneuil, but they should never be defined by the stain of slavery. America was not founded to propagate slavery, it was an unfortunate biproduct of its true intent - the political and economic freedom embedded in a culture and celebration of the individual and western ideology stemming from its roots in Ancient Greece. Let us build more temples and memorials to freedom instead and the exemplars of western thought and individualism borne also from the tenets and doctrines of the Christian tradition. And finally, I don't oppose any mention or reference to the history of slavery, but not at the expense of some of America's honorable leaders from our past, including our Founders. So long as we continue this new trajectory of destroying the statues of many great men and engaging in revisionist history of our founding fathers, as imperfect as they were, to fit a certain political and ideological narrative fully underway in our schools and other institutions, i oppose the memorializatoon of slavery and it's dark history. Let us remember, honor, and celebrate more the positive attributes that only come with liberty. We need more the memory of liberty in 2019, seeing that we are increasingly losing it, than the remembrance of slavery.
Jul 13, 2019, 5:53:55 AM