"There’s a common quote, frequently attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”
In our modern context, this should be rephrased a bit: “Don’t try to pull down a statue if you have no idea who or what the statue was really about.”
During a 2016 Columbus Day protest conducted by Wunk Sheek, a Native American student organization, activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus hosted a “die-in” at Bascom Hall, near a statue of President Abraham Lincoln.
According to The Daily Cardinal, a campus newspaper, the protest ended with the group hanging a sign on the Lincoln monument that said “#DecolonizeOurCampus.” "
http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/24/university-of-wisconsin-students-protest-abraham-lincoln-statue-because-he-owned-slaves?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpkbE1EQmhNakEwWXpoaCIsInQiOiJSQmxJb0ozaHlRMDkzQk0rZjJHT1VIVmRJWkYzamdkc3Y0XC91RDVTV1JaWTBXU0VjZlo1TlwvUDBJbVpoZDJxR
In our modern context, this should be rephrased a bit: “Don’t try to pull down a statue if you have no idea who or what the statue was really about.”
During a 2016 Columbus Day protest conducted by Wunk Sheek, a Native American student organization, activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus hosted a “die-in” at Bascom Hall, near a statue of President Abraham Lincoln.
According to The Daily Cardinal, a campus newspaper, the protest ended with the group hanging a sign on the Lincoln monument that said “#DecolonizeOurCampus.” "
http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/24/university-of-wisconsin-students-protest-abraham-lincoln-statue-because-he-owned-slaves?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpkbE1EQmhNakEwWXpoaCIsInQiOiJSQmxJb0ozaHlRMDkzQk0rZjJHT1VIVmRJWkYzamdkc3Y0XC91RDVTV1JaWTBXU0VjZlo1TlwvUDBJbVpoZDJxR