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K “Any GPS system will take you to the intersection of Ronnie Reagan Road and Saddam Hussein Highway without hesitation or reflection.”
J “Or irony or regret. But Quantrill was a domestic terrorist whereas Hussein threatened the supremacy of the U.S dollar as the world’s reserve currency and was not nice in an area with many not nice people. We Americans should celebrate our own.”
K “Our own what?”
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K “Changing the names of streets and schools does not rewrite history, it changes the names of the individuals who are celebrated on streets and schools.”
J “I have found that those people who want to keep William Quantrill Circle are also those people who claim that the Civil War was about state’s rights rather than about slavery.”
K “Streets and schools should be named after heroes not villains. The history books should be written to reflect the actual history including the actual exploits of the heroes and the villains.”
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K “Not only are Stuart and Lee going down the road, Washington and Jefferson also will be sent down a trail renamed after someone else.”
J “Rename the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall as the ‘George Washington Carver Monument’?”
K “Then we could still refer to it generically as the ‘Washington Monument’ on the Mall.”
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[See the e-commentary at The Confederate Flag: What Does It Mean To You? (July 6, 2015) and Columbus And The Redskins (October 14, 2013).]
[See the e-commentary at Has Scalia Gone Feral (March 4, 2013) and One Gun Per White Adult Male? A Flintlock Musket? The “One Man, One Gun” Decision (October 4, 2010).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
Happy Presidents’ Day
Celebrate heroes on streets and schools; chronicle the activities of the heroes and villains in the history books.
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