Remembering Our History
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When right-wingers whine about “forgetting our history” when people take down statue of evil Confederates and racists, they are telling on themselves. There’s plenty to remember about our history that does not honor the worst people in our nation’s history. In fact, you can simply take down those statues and put up new ones. As Decatur, Georgia has done.
A Georgia square that was home to a Confederate monument for more than a century will now host a statue of the late civil rights icon John Lewis.
Authorities began installing the sculpture of the former Georgia congressman in Decatur last week ahead of its official unveiling on Saturday.
“It’s exciting to see it going up and exciting for the significance of what it represents and what it’s replacing,” Basil Watson, the artist behind the new statue, said at the installation.
Its arrival comes about four years after Decatur officials removed a 30-foot-tall obelisk erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908.
Perfect.