Of course West Point should stop memorializing Robert E. Lee, writes QuinHillyer.
This is not to say that all public statues or memorials to Confederate leaders should be removed nationwide — although the default position should be to take them down. Context is important, as is a respect for the messiness of history against the alternative of ignoring it. The context at West Point, however, argues overwhelmingly and insistently that Confederates merit no name or place of honor there.
When the city of New Orleans, for example, acted to remove “Confederate monuments” and rename streets named after Confederates or ardent segregationists, it arguably went too far. Of course it made sense to extinguish statues or place names honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis and racist former politicians.
People of goodwill thus could argue that, in context, both the Beauregard and Lee Statues should remain, while perhaps the city could add inscriptions or audio-visual technology expressing modern distaste for their Confederate cause and other morally necessary explainers.
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