We Aren't Trying to Forget About Our Past, We Know About It and We Don't Like It

The post I will be commenting on is the post “Halifax Tries to Forget it’s history by Emile Martel. In this blog post Emile argues that we should be careful when removing statues, street signs, renaming lakes and rivers that are named after our past leaders just because of their cruelty toward aboriginals in the 1700s. He argues that if context is brought into play that we wouldn’t have to take these symbols of our history down because people will understand that we have mistreated aboriginals and treat them better. I agree with one aspect of the blog post and that is the idea that we should…