What’s next? Mount Rushmore?

So far, the radicals in my country have torn down memorials of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and many other historical figures. And I just read that the American Museum of Natural History in New York will remove the statue of Teddy Roosevelt in the name of “social justice.”

We’re talking about two of our Founding Fathers and the founder of America’s extraordinary national parks system. What’s next? Will these un-American, un-Patriotic radicals dynamite Mount Rushmore? They are sure to think of a way to include Abraham Lincoln on their list of white supremacists.

I was born and raised in a small town in Kansas where the population was probably 30% to 35% Mexican American, and many were my friends and classmates. There were not a lot of Black families, but I had two Black classmates in junior high and high school who were my friends and good students. There were no signs of racism and there was not a bigoted bone in my body throughout my youth, including college and during the 1970s and 80s here in Denver.

Things have changed dramatically, and the evil, violent, destructive radical left (also known as Democrats and Liberals) are 100% to blame. They are creating hatred and racism on a level that will lead to a civil war in this country, and they will lose.

Douglas E. Lierle, Lone Tree The time to remove monuments to the Confederacy is about 155 years overdue. The time to replace them with tributes to freed slaves has come. Germany took only a few years to transition from glorifying jackboot Nazi soldiers to honoring their concentration camp victims. The difference? Germany faced their sin, owned it and resolved to never repeat it.

When will Confederate flag waivers own up to the fact that Confederate leaders were traitors to the United States, and its pledge that “all men are created equal” and that in this country there should be “liberty and justice for all”? Their argument that these monuments are memorials to preserve history is hollow; as valid as a statue of Hitler would be at the Brandenburg Gate.

Primarily built during times of Jim Crow oppression, they were actually state-sanctioned propaganda meant to glorify the Civil War as if it were a noble crusade, instead of what it really was: a failed, treasonous and bloody effort to keep slavery and the subjugation of Black people. They should be studied for what they are: symbols of domestic terrorism and the terrible abuse of human rights. Never should they be displayed with honor or respect.

Ronald Fischer, Lakewood