Blacks, natives and sell out whites should take the pickles out their asses and show some respect for (WHITE HISTORY)

I’m a man in my 50s, and I’ve just about had it with this new wave of tearing down every colonial statue in sight. These monuments have stood for decades—some even centuries—and suddenly, in the last few years, everyone’s decided they’re offensive. It’s as if history itself is being erased because it doesn’t fit with today’s lens.

Do I agree with everything colonial figures did? Of course not. But history isn’t supposed to be sanitized to make people feel comfortable. Statues don’t exist to glorify every act of a historical figure—they exist to mark a moment in time, to show who shaped the country and how we got here, for better or worse.

When I walk past those statues, I don’t see “heroes” or “villains.” I see history—raw, complicated, and real. And yes, that includes the parts that make people uncomfortable. But tearing them down doesn’t change what happened; it only makes it easier to forget.

Frankly, I believe that communities—including Indigenous and Black communities—should respect their own history and the shared history of the countries they live in. That doesn’t mean celebrating the injustices; it means acknowledging the entire story. You can’t demand recognition and education while at the same time erasing physical reminders of how we got here.

If anything, these statues should spark conversations. Put up plaques. Add context. Build new monuments alongside the old ones to tell all sides of the story. But to simply yank them out as if the past never happened? That’s not progress—that’s amnesia.

I’ve lived long enough to see societies rewrite themselves over and over, and this current trend feels more like emotional reaction than thoughtful action. Statues are history carved in stone. You can’t build a better future by pretending the past didn’t happen.