Someone just told me they are thinking of taking J. Edger Hoover's name off a government building now that gays have the right to get married. Personally I do not see the reasoning behind it. I why are we so gun ho to try to erase and rewrite history. For better of for worse it is what it is. Hiding it and denying it will not change the fact it happened. We get mad at Germany for denying the holocaust because they are ashamed it happened, but how are we any different if we take peoples names off things or stop change a state flag because it has a confederate flag as part of it? History is just that history. Hiding it or denying it will not change the fact it happened. I really think all this "Oh no we can not do that because someone's feelings will get hurt" attitude is getting out of control.
It is said those that forget history are condemned to repeat it. It has also been said you can run from history or you can learn from it. When did this country start running from anything? Much less things that happened in the past. Every time we do away with something from the past that may or may not remind someone of a bad time in our past we are running from history. We did a lot of stupid things in our past, and sweeping them under the rug does not get rid of them. If we want to put the stupid things in our past behind us and make a better future, first we must own what we did. Accept it happened acknowledge, realize it was wrong (if it was) and make sure it never happens again.
All this getting rid of things that we do not like weather it be a name on a building or a flag because it embraces us does not make it not have happened all it does it strip away the right to freedom of speech. The first rule of fanatics is when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy. Who says tv is not educational I got that from a kids tv show about 20 years ago, and it is just as true today. If we learn from history we can grow as a country. When someone is a child they make many mistakes and learn from them. We were like a child. A new country unlike any other at the time. Our people came from all over the world. It was only natural we would have differences, and we would not always get along because of them, but we are not longer a child nation. It is time for us to store all the things we have learned inside our memory and make the future that of an adult. Remember all the bad things of our history, BUT do not repeat them.
