Slippery slope of historical revisionism

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• PULITZER FINALIST The Post-Dispatch editorials submitted for the Pulitzer Prize

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of the truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

The idea of a mayoral panel removing or rewriting the inscription on the century-old Confederate memorial in Forest Park seems at best to be just another good intention on the proverbial path to hell and at worst to be an action that reeks with an Orwellian stench.

As one who has spent a lifetime fighting for civil rights and racial reconciliation, it is also my civil right to raise my voice in memory of my many Confederate ancestors, who deserve to be fully understood in the context of their times and to be honored for their efforts to repair the nation in the years after Appomattox.

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