BonzaiDuck
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How about . . . kidnapping small children of asylum-seeking parents, and then losing them from bureaucratic incompetence?Even the naming of things after historical figures has become partisan and tribal.
Let them name the street after a man who:
Murdered innocent women and children. I can understand putting enemy combatant and plantation owners to the sword, but not women and children.
Established a harsh autocratic regimen of forced plantation labor. From wikipedia:
“He enforced a harsh regimen of plantation labor, described by the historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot as caporalisme agraire (agrarian militarism). As had Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines demanded that all blacks work either as soldiers to protect the nation or as laborers on the plantations to generate crops and income to keep the nation going. His forces were strict in enforcing this, to the extent that some blacks felt as if they were again enslaved.”
It’s also worth noting that his own people assasinated him, and only decades later did they embrace him as a symbol.
But whatever, if Haitians want to name a street in America after him, so be it, if only so we can move past judging the character of other historical figures by contemporary measuring sticks.
The only exception to this should be the Confederate statues erected to make political statements.
I'm still wondering why the Arch-Perpetrator-in-Chief can't be prosecuted for kidnapping/transporting-across-state-lines once he's "relieved of duty." Maybe it's a stupid idea, but maybe it's not, and I'm wondering if it's a legal possibility. Nobody's answered that question, but then I've only mentioned it here or there . . .
