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Books...who even has a library card today? My great grandkids will have no idea who those people were unless they are very academic and have a need to research history The internet where most people get their historical information (well there and Disnneyworld) will change peoples knowledge of their own history.

Canadians on this site have seen statues of John A. Macdonald be taken down one not very kindly in Montreal where it was pulled down. He is one of the Fathers of Confederation the first Prime Minister of our country. Some say he had slaves well no he married the daughter of a slave owner in Trinidad but he is concidered the architect of Residential Schools in Canada for indigenous kids. (US had them along with Mexico) That is a very black eye in the history of Canada and should be condenmed and appologized for but that does not mean we should wipe out the memory of our first prime minister and all the good things he influenced.

So should all those statues of Confederate leaders be melted down and recast into only people that did good (by todays standards) or should some of them remain so that youth can be educated as to some of the wrongs they did and the true history of the south?

Statues don't educate. Teachers do. We don't glorify traitors, seditionists or insurrectionists (unless you're a Republican MAGAt cult follower). I think the likenesses of Confederate generals carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia also needs to be removed just like so much trashy graffiti. (I'm not too keen on Mount Rushmore, either, but that's a different story.)

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What about what is happening in Zihua right now? They are rebuilding a monument to corruption by rebuilding the Parthenon. That "monument" should be torn down and the land given to its rightful owners. Has the mayor poured more concrete up there? If not why is it happening? I personally with never step foot there.

Yes, our local PRI mayor has received millions of pesos from the state government to "refurbish" one of the greatest monuments to PRI corruption ever. Since I'm unaware that the current mayor has ever allowed open bidding on any public contract (there have been no public notices), I can only guess that it's his construction materials being "bought" with the money budgeted, surely with a nice percentage for him because that's "the way it's done" here, and though budgets are usually excessive, nothing is ever left over or returned to the coffers. Even if you go over budget here, there's no penalty. You simply stop work until everyone is clamoring for the project to be finished and the state coughs up more money.

Personally, I would've preferred to see the land sold and the money used to compensate the VICTIMS of El Negro Durazo for their losses, including my wife's family who was threatened personally by El Negro to give him the title to land they owned adjacent to his property. But victim compensation hasn't ever been discussed by any politician that I'm aware of. They're all too excited to get their cut, simulate their jobs and move up the political ladder. I find it disgusting, and it's one more reason why I have no respect for our local mayor.