The City View: We cannot hide from our history, we can only learn from it
In this episode, City PM Editor Christian May gives a personal view on the debate around statues and monuments to controversial historical figures.
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“They should, by and large, be left where they are because, by the passage of time, they take on new meaning – they cease to be monuments to a single life and become instead monuments to uncomfortable truths, monuments to ideas, to complexity and yes, monuments to wrongdoing or shameful acts.”
“They should be understood, they should be talked about more and, where democratic force compels it, recontextualised, even, on occasion, repositioned. But we cannot run or hide from our history, we can only learn from it and add to it so that future generations understand our response to the past as well as our commitment to the future.”
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