A Rose By Any Other Name.

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

People are upset because historical preservationists identify old lunatic asylums and colored schools using the original names.

Twenty years ago a local museum planned to exhibit artifacts from a slave ship; the usual suspects went nuts and the exhibit was cancelled.

 

[starrkers]

Why is it never enough to acknowledge the wrongs of the past? Why must we rewrite it?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

STARRKERS

My own theory is, the past frightens people and reminds them how precarious existence is.

 

[starrkers]

Possibly. My theory is different: We are always right, even when we were wrong we have to show we were right.

 

[SeaCat]

People are upset because historical preservationists identify old lunatic asylums and colored schools using the original names.

Twenty years ago a local museum planned to exhibit artifacts from a slave ship; the usual suspects went nuts and the exhibit was cancelled.

James,

Just a couple of years ago a Treasure Hunter from up north wanted to exhibit parts of his find in Miami. You can even research this if you wish. (The Treasure hunter is Barry Clifford and the ship was the Pirate Ship Wydah. The first documented Pirate Ship to be found.)

Some of the people in Miami researched the ships past and found it had been a slaver before the Pirate Jack Bellamy captured it. They protested the showing on the grounds it would have somehow romanticised the Slave Trade. (How I'm still not sure.)

Cat