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Oh, just erase history that’ll solve all the problems. The statue removal of historical figures is just stupid and wrong. I’m not defending the confederacy but it’s part of American history. Not thinking that this would happen in Mexico with its historical figures that are now not popular with a certain political persuasion. I don’t quite understand why you posted this article link on this site how does it relate to Mexico? Is there a movement in Mexico to rewrite history too? Oh that’s right he said it didn’t have anything to do with Mexico, so why post it in the first place?

As a Southerner and kin to some of the personalities depicted by those statues, I find the article extremely relevant and right on. My ancester Gen. Lee made it known that he never wanted statues erected to him after the fall of the South, and I can't imagine my other ancestor President Jefferson Davis would've been too hot on the idea either. You don't idolize traitors and losers. Of course, today's cult followers will disagree.

To date, I'm only aware of one statue removed erroneously due to over-emotional undereducated fervor: the Castleman Statue that used to stand in my childhood neighborhood of Cherokee Triangle in the Highlands of Louisville at the intersection of Cherokee Parkway and Cherokee Rd. Though he served in the Confederacy, he redeemed himself later fighting for the Union, particularly in Cuba (oops, another one of those U.S. wars based on lies) and in his contributions to Louisville including for integration way before its time. The statue depicted him on a famous horse he owned wearing civilian garb, and the statue was intended to honor the horse. But the fanatics defiled it, threw paint on it, and clamored stubbornly for its removal ignoring any facts simply because some idiot included it in the Registry of Confederate Monuments or some such nonsense, something it wasn't. Louisville was a border region where families were divided, and many Louisvillians were quite progressive for the day, as they still are, something difficult to understand for folks not from the region.

Mexicans clamored for years to remove the statue in Mexico City depicting the monster Cristóbal Colón and to stop recognizing him as anything but a lost traveler, a cruel human being and a wannabe emperor. Of course the Spaniards and their "pureblood" descendants got bent out of shape over it, but fuggem. We now observe Día de la Raza in Mexico, but not Día de Cristóbal Colón.