Toronado3800
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Do you think at anytime these types of attitudes are to be celebrated? To me its like saying it was ok to beat your wife back then because it was a different time.I agree. As a child I read a lot of Jack Londons books and as an adult I found out he was another dyed in the wool racist. People like that should not be celebrated. If an author of a book is allowed to spread their poison it just creates more racist attitudes. At the end of the day she did nothing we will miss. Other authors will and have come forward to take her place. At the end of the day her legacy doesnt justify any celebration because of the immeasurable harm her and other racists attitude have done.
I'll split it. We can't throw away every piece of Roman era writing because them ppl were nuts.
We do need to give context though. This is a big question for me, judging people by their time or by our standards.
Not celebrated but not hidden.
If there is a more appropriate person to name the award for they should rename it. Let's not ban the book though.
Historical figures get more complicated. Consider I would not remove one Confederate monuments. I would put a larger statue of Harriet Tubman, MLK, Jackie Robinson, whoever next to them and mention the horrors of slavery on a new larger plaque. I would also mention who thought it appropriate to put up a statue of Jefferson Davis or whoever and some good quotes from Alexander H. Stephens (Confederate VP) or the Texas Declaration of Causes, about why the south fought the war, slavery.