Editor:
Let me get this straight, the statue of our late president is being torn down because he advanced territory into Arcata during his time in office? (“McKinley is Off the Plaza,” posted online Feb. 28.) Didn’t Americans do that all over the U.S. when our forefathers came to this country? Isn’t that why America spans from “sea to shining sea”? So now the city council votes to destroy history and pretend we didn’t have Indian wars and fights over land as America was being settled? Seriously? No one cares that he was our president and historical figure? Will politicians be burning books soon, too?
Here is my suggestion, since the city council (and probably some other town folk) are ashamed of our history and all that the pioneers went through to settle the west, perhaps all of you should just move out of the Arcata area and give it back to the Indians! That way you can be soooo “politically correct” … your conscious will be clear and I’m sure the Tribes will be happy to have the land back. Problem solved!
By the way, you could always donate the statue to McKinleyville, unless they are changing the name to keep up with Arcata’s idiotic plan. (Only in California.)
Nancy Single, Cathedral City
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I bet this lady cheered when the Corporate Media aired images of US soldiers toppling statues of Saddam Hussein.
Statue went to Ohio, it wasn’t destroyed, calm yourself. Rant about something worth the effort…
Now that it turns out that our first 12 presidents were slave owners I would like to see the National Mall leveled and repurposed as a luxurious hotel.
Heaven forbid that we should have one less old racist white guy elevated on a pedestal, especially since that is what Arcata is *totally* all about. The will of the people definitely being violated there. And it was totally an act of the people when the statue was put up and completely not the act of one rich guy who was a fanboy paying for the statue himself and spearheading the effort. Civilization is entering the end times.
The preceding was sarcasm.
Here’s my suggestion Nancy:
Learn a bit more about your country, I suggest Thomas Jefferson, and you will also oppose lionizing human being’s imperial inclinations whether they are McKinley, Bush, Obama, Trump, or native people.
One million Filipino civilians died under McKinley’s term.
How many more will die from U.S. oil-wars?