Tearing down statues risks rewriting American history and forgetting its slavery roots - Washington Times

Tearing down statues risks rewriting American history and forgetting its slavery roots - Washington Times: 

Yet, pretending that these figures never existed, or eradicating the memory of the good they performed, will continue the march toward a false sense of place — one that is not based on what was, but on what the folks in power wish had been. That is a self-delusion that escapes reality.
We must live in the real world where bad men did good things and good men did bad things — and intelligent people recognize this.
You can escape reality. But you cannot escape the consequences of escaping reality. Those consequences will be the inevitable repetition of a past we should never forget.