This is funny because most people have no clue of their history. I mean the chat here shows it vibrantly in that everyone says Abe was good and his statues shouldnt be removed. Contrary to the mass propaganda which tries to portray the civil war as a war for black people which if you read history is comical. Its these same people that claim Jesus was white and preach the good book even if they are illiterate. The civil war was not about black people. It was about land. The Monroe doctrine was not 20 years previous and most senators and such owned slaves. During the civil war the southern usa was owned by 12 families and they owned the land and the people regardless of color. The civil war was a war for land based on the Monroe Doctrine as seen by the jim crowe south after the civil war until MLK. I understand people dont want to remember the horrors of the Klan and the Confederacy and that is why they are toppling statues but I ask if the toppling of statues really changes anything. Does removing a Robert Lee statue make Virginia less racist? In current times we see the same pandering. I mean Harris is VP and the media goes nuts for the firsts that she marks... but she doesnt promote democracy or a response to gun violence or anything to common people. Its the same pandering and until the people really change the system it will continue.

Why do people destroy and rewrite history!!!!??? Wtf, entire species delusional narcissistic shit... We hurt ourselves, its madness!!!!

Just stop with erasing history.
99% of people are a mix of good and bad, and people at the time were acting at the morality of the time.

Abraham Lincoln was always revered as "The Emancipator" and "Honest Abe."

Hence, his statue SHOULD stand for all time.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

William Wiburforce, a British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. Okay, I cheated, but now we all get to know.

I think if the sum of a person's legacy outweighs a single factor, then a memorial to that person is appropriate. No one's erasing or rewriting history. We're making a conscious decision not to celebrate the darkest chapters of it. These are people and topics for study and commemoration, not for tourist attractions or elevated status within a nation they fought to divide. Imagine that Germany undertook a concerted effort to remove dozens of Nazi statues from public places. Would we stand in the way?

I don't agree that allowing 19-year-old students to lead the charge against historical inequity is a sound one, but the intentions are good. At the very least, it's opened a discussion about what we collectively want our legacy to be.

OMG I wish they would leave these statues/monuments alone.

I have not a clue who that dude is.

Why the statue of Lincoln should come down?

Nope

Does anyone know who it is?

The Statue of Lincoln shouldn’t come down - so it’s a moot point, but I voted No of course

should take mlk statue down then

no statue should be taken down ,, it is your history good or bad if you get rid of it then people forget how they got to where life is so much better now than before,,,,

Nope. Lincoln was a good man. The other statues of slave owners can come down.

Daniel Webster?

William something, sorry can't remember his last name, he helped abolish slave trade

Who is it?

NO

All you need to know about the history deleting shitheads.. and who inspires them..

This white man looks tired and worn.

I think Nalah McWhorter is being rather childish. There are ways to advance race issues and the questions around it without looking like an idiot.