If we were to demolish statues of Robert Lee but not statues of Christopher Columbus

[Warpy]

33. Or of any of the Indian fighters immortalized in the west

for that matter, along with renaming Mt. Taylor Turquoise Mountain the way it was in a couple of different native languages and even teaching the whole story in our schools.

I remember touring the Kit Carson House the first time I came out here and I was struck by how primitive it was compared to the way people back home in New England were able to live in the 1880s and opined "no wonder he was such a bastard."

The Indians looked really shocked and then giggled. The docent just looked shocked. Yeah, my big mouth is always getting me into trouble. That day, it got me invited to a feast the following weekend, one I couldn't attend because I was just passing through.

Still, this country began with genocide, much of it passive through diseases the Europeans had no clue how to control, and then warfare, followed by indentured servitude and slavery.

We'll be all grown up when we acknowledge this. We'll also be unique in the world if we do.