Originally Posted by
Sheesfaced
Maybe it’s because the statues of limitations are up on the statutes.
This really irritates me. That white fragility term suggests to me this is likely some combination of white and black kids. That’s a rather new academic term. Not some black street term.
Washington’s sacrifice and contributions to America are immeasurable. That he owned slaves should be remembered when he has been deified, but it doesn’t erase who he was. He was born into that world and was conflicted about it at a time when most weren’t.
I don’t give one fuck about statues, but slavery was rampant thousands of years before Christ. Rampant in Europe a thousand years ago. This isn’t some confederate general whose biggest accomplishments were military battles for the preservation of slavery. This is poking a bear and antagonizing more than rubes.