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Don’t sanitize history

Wed., May 31, 2017

Concerning the removal of the Confederate statues, it seems as though our national history is being scrubbed clean. Removing a statue, a plaque, a flag, a monument depicting the Ten Commandments on a court house lawn and prayer in schools points to an erasure of how America became the nation we now have.

To deny that our American history is bloody is to deny the long road that was fought for our freedom.

Humanity has been biased, prejudiced, angry and tribal in nature in all cultures.

Sanitizing history is surely one way of repeating the past.

When will we ever learn?

Elizabeth Rust

Wallace

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