The Come-Back, Day 34. Of Slaves and Statues.
These days, we have been hearing about statues getting beheaded, thrown into the sea, getting painted on, mutilated, etc. All because those statues represent certain people whose past was not glorious in the department of race relations. So, Christopher Columbus got beheaded in Boston, and Edward Colston got knocked into Bristol harbor. Until now, we have worshipped men like these for all the advances they made to civilization. Our civilization. Europe. But our world no longer stops at the Atlantic Ocean and the Ural mountains. It's grown, and when we speak with our Chinese co-worker, our Ghanian neighbor, our Bolivian acquaintance, our Afghani doctor, we discover that they have a history just as rich as ours, and, more importantly, just as valid. History is not just stories of brave discoveries and conquests. History is a story of people competing for natural resources and the power and wealth they bring. That people which is victorious, for whatever reason, is the people tha...