If this was truly about police brutality against American black males, I would see some modicum of rational thought going into trying to remove older names and replace them with more modern names as a means of considering ALL viewpoints.
However, one has to consider all of what is currently transpiring. We have a number of spin off groups hijacking and infiltrating the BLM and other movements in an effort to completely dismantle our constitutionality. We are a democratic republic based on the rule of law. This means that we have freedoms that are both protected by the constitution and the law to protect citizens from those who are behaving in a manner that causes them to be a danger and threat to the health and safety of others. Laws and opinions can be changed without the wholesale destruction of lives and property. Whatever happened to civil disobedience? Civil disobedience ended the systemic discrimination in the Southern states leading to the establishment of laws that governed in both an integrative and nondiscriminatory way towards those who were being openly marginalized in the society.
Civil disobedience was also used to successfully end the slave trade in England in 1833. William Wilberforce, a British politician and philanthropist lead the movement in Parliament beginning in 1787 to eradicate the slave trade coming out of Western Africa. This man, though suffering incredible hardship and health issues remained steadfastly and ardently opposed to slavery and ended up spending the rest of his life attempting to persuade his fellow parliamentary adherents in the evils of slavery. The slave trade was permanently abolished by the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 - three days before Wilberforce died. His persistence, determination and conviction paid off.
History is important. It gives us information about where we have been and how much we have improved, grown and overcome as a people. It shows us the importance of faith, values, conviction and fortitude, something that few people really care about now, but is what gave our country it's beginning.
If we care about where we are headed as a nation, I encourage you to become as informed as you can on what and WHO is actually funding these movements, supporting these movements and what these movements represent. Police brutality is a valid concept. Overthrowing a constitutional republic is much more insidious and I believe that is the true goal of some of these groups.
