Bofferbrauer2 said:
00Xander00 said:
I'm from England, UK where there is a similar issue. Due to the racist police brutality (in certain parts of America) which caused the death of George floyd, there was a statue of slave trader recently here in England that was removed (and also protests in London happened which targeted other statues). This has caused waves of discussion and debate about other public UK statues with deviant histories.
I believe the best solution is to put these statues in a museum where they can have a context. The environment has the ability to change the context of art, eg; a slave trader standing outside in the sun next to legendary figures such as Royal dynasties, Mother Theresa and Churchill. This would make the context of the statue seam as if the country is meriting the slave trader. Whereas in a museum the statues can have a more controlled historical context eg: there could have a sign next to it for tourists and school kids to read which would describe the guy as a bad and heinous guy and what he did that is infamously wrong to modern society; therefore why the statue of him is on display.
Although, I'm not from America, so I may seam ignorant due to not considering any differences in our countries' issues, including the American Civil War and the mentality (therefore culture) of some 'historians' in the South of US.
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And that's the problem. Like the video above explains, only a select few museums actually want to have these bulky statues which are difficult to maintain when inside a building (try cleaning such a statue without getting the whole floor drenched in water, for instance)
So my idea would be to put them into a plantation and turn that one into an open-air museum where you can teach about the history of the south, the slavery, and what else they might have been fighting for during the secession. Thar would put plantations into good cultural use instead of using them for weddings...
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I actually like this idea. I'd prefer they remain where they are, but better your plan than for them to be vandalized and ruined. And no, I'm not a racist or sexist. But I find the idea of getting rid of history unthinkable.
But then I hear people like Morgan Freeman talk and I can see his point. Maybe racism would go away if we simply ignored the past and stopped talking about what our ancestors did to one another. Maybe we could just forget our way into a society that doesn't belittle, murder, steal from, or demand repartions from each other because of what people did decades/centuries ago that we had no control over.
