I don't have a problem with statues. I don't like the weird reverence the right has for them in a "it's my culture" way which to me reads like a refusal to acknowledge the problems and shut the fuck up liberals. It never even comes off beyond that, I can understand that you think it's history and you take the good with the bad, but often it just seems like people upset that liberals find yet other thing "problematic". And while yeah the left can be annoying, I see looking at the past and trying to acknowledge it as a good and progressive thing. We need to learn from what was bad so that we don't make the same mistakes. I think like everything there is a balance.
Like the President's tweet is just complete garbage. It is now 2020 and the world has changed and reflected on the past so much. We are moving away from the type of culture that saw Columbus as some great man, because we have a greater understanding of history and the nuances of it. Also as a society we are trying to figure out our race relations and all this means that perceptions on things are going to change. I see this as a good thing. I see Tweets like that as a real "NO I REFUSE TO ACKNOLEDGE THIS BECAUSE I WANT THINGS TO STAY THE SAME LIKE THEY WERE WHEN I HAD UNQUESTIONABLE POWER". It's like saying that Jesus was clearly white when thats fucking stupid. Our society is changing from one that only has the white narrative or the man at the top. It's becoming diverse. This does not have to be an awful change. And to me that is America. I have seen America as the melting pot of the world and one of many diverse viewpoints.
