Rick Moran
What's happening should become known as the Second Salem Witch Trials. Those who stand accused are unable to defend themselves.. . . "Mr. Marshall must have flunked history. He forgot to mention something germane to the current debate; Benjamin Franklin founded the very first anti-slavery society in America. But he is white and hung around with slavers, so he's got to go.
"What is most disturbing to me about this mad dash to bury American history is that there is no effort whatsoever to bring any kind of balanced analysis to the examination of a historical figure's fitness to be honored with a statue or school name.
"Human beings are not one-dimensional. Being human, they have flaws – many of them serious. Why don't we apply the same scrutiny we are applying to the Founding Fathers to a man like Ted Kennedy, who may not have owned slaves, but treated women as property, not to mention dozens, perhaps hundreds of cases of pushing himself on women that today might be considered sexual assault? Whatever good he did as a legislator must be seen in balance with his faults."
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