Jimmy Scoular wrote:Mindless vandalism achieves nothing. Bluesince62 suggests no statues of slave owners should be exhibited.What about the signatories of the US Constitution, 41 of the 56 owned slaves.If we use a similar logic then no Afro American should pay a blind bit of notice to the "holy document" as it was a construct of exploitative racists? The problem is most of those that destroy are too stupid to question or know this important fact.Therefore following their line of moral equivalency they should ignore the articles therein ...but wait the very same document allows for citizens protest under it's first amendment. Ergo if they trash the US Constitution they have NO protection under the law! In demanding the removal of History they are endangering an already largely ignorant 16-25 age grouping to even further detachment from reality.
The onus should be to get the young black vote out in November rather than trash towns and cities.This did nothing for Afro Americans in 1968 and equally after Rodney King.Equally I would be pissed off if I sought real change only to have these idiots detracting from the real bigotry and violence shown by US law enforcement.
I suggest you read my 2nd post on this topic,I also suggested it should be in a museum,not in the public domain,therefore allowing those who want to see it to do so,and those who wish not to,don't have it in their faces?? And in no part have I condoned the action either,just pointed out the reason it was probably vandalised.and nothing more,I don't want to get into the history of a country,that has very little of it in real terms.as I said,put the statue in a military museum.