Gideon Ereh: Oh puhleeze! I doubt there is a single person alive in the US today that can claim a direct link to anyone that experienced slavery first hand, or likely even second hand so how could they possibly remember something they never experienced?

I have Irish and German ancestry and can trace my roots to ancestors that were indeed slaves on one side of the family tree and Nazis high up in the organization as one of Goerring's closest. But do I feel any hatred to those slave owners or remorse for what my Nazi uncle did?  Of course not, I  was neither directly involved nor affected just as there are no people living today directly affected by what happened over 150 years ago, unless they choose to be. 

Ancient history. Hell, what happened to me last week doesn't matter anymore. If people worried about these statues spent as much time working on Chicago's black on black murder rate or black families with no fathers they might actually do some good instead of causing trouble.

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