DeniseJH
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But yet it does, because there is a finite amount of money. We have people literally dying in the streets from drugs and crime and you're worried about a statue that may hurt someone's feelings. What I find amusing is because of the revisionist history being taught in failing public schools, it has to be pointed out that they should be offended and outraged. Isn't that the very definition of irony? Reminds me of someone painting a house that's on fire.
Of course there is a finite amount of money - how many statues have been removed so far, a handful in recent years? Certainly not enough to explain why all of those problems you've mentioned haven't all been solved by now, if that's the difference a little money would have made.
Hurting someone's feelings - I think it is a little more significant than that. I'm quite ashamed, as a fellow American, that you don't.
Revisionist history??? You really believe that kids have to be taught to be angered by racism and slavery?