Editor,
In his letter on Wednesday, Aug. 30 (“Let’s not repeat the past”), Desmond Tuck questions the legality of flag-burning, and equates it with statue removal. “Why would someone whose own freedom literally existed because brave people fought under the flag many times, be allowed to destroy it?” he asks. “I have a similar reaction to people who, purportedly because of some higher political ideal, want to pull down statues that stood undisturbed for a very long time,” he adds.
Tuck is apparently unaware of what Confederate statues represent, when they were placed in public spaces, for what purpose and why Americans are rallying to remove these statues after the recent Charlottesville violence. Simply put, statues honoring Confederate heroes who fought to retain slavery are symbols of white supremacy, and most of those statues were installed during the height of the Jim Crow era as whites fought against progress toward equality made by African-Americans.
They are an affront to anyone who believes in civil rights. They need to be removed from public plazas and placed in museums so they can be studied and observed in their proper context.
Irvin Dawid
Burlingame
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Then do you also agree Irwin that Mission Delores and all the other California missions needs to come down immediately due to the genocide that the Spanish and Mexicans conducted against the indigenous people of California?
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