Instead of tearing down monuments of disgraced racists, I think governments should create Artists' Funds to commission new works responding, and installed adjacent, to the old ones.
@nina After waffling on the issue I now think some of these statues should be taken down, but preserved and placed in museums.
That is where historical artifacts belong.
But by destroying the statues altogether, it makes it that much easier to forget the history that the left so desperately wishes us to repeat.
@Locksmith @nina Well the thing is, if you leave all previous statues up, you'll eventually run out of space for new ones. This is behind my thought that some of them should be taken down.
@realcaseyrollins @Locksmith Artists are creative. If space is a concern, they can work with that. For example, you could sculpt a snake or something intertwining with an existing statue, on the same plinth. That's just off the top of my head. You can also simply paint existing statues to great effect:
