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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 3024937" data-attributes="member: 1940"><a href="http://yellowhammernews.com/politics-2/condoleezza-rice-blasts-efforts-to-sanitize-history-by-removing-historic-monuments-cdr/" target="_blank">Condoleezza Rice blasts efforts to ‘sanitize history’ by removing historic monuments</a>&quot;Rather than try to shield future generations from the flaws of our nation’s founders and former leaders, that such monuments should serve as a reminder of progress that has been made.&quot;“I am a firm believer in ‘Keep your history before you,’” Rice responded. “I don’t actually want to rename things that were named for slave owners. I want us to have to look at those names and recognize what they did, and be able to tell our kids what they did and for them to be able to have a sense of their own history.”“When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it’s a bad thing,” she added.</blockquote>

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