Subject: Re: flag- raising
Robin Panza wrote:

>   Not one message on
> this thread as said there should not be non-wasps included in a memorial!
> The messages have been about adulturation of an existing icon, not about
> racism.

Well, one contributor to this thread wrote: "Should we have all journalists
and historians edit the
truth of the specific act captured in the photograph to satisfy some sick
urge to represent Americans as racially
varied?"

However, I think you can take the "memorial should literally represent the
photograph" position without being racist. I just see the memorial as a
metaphor, not as literal truth (which the photo is, and NO ONE is suggesting
altering the photo). Photo = one thing, memorial = another thing. This seems
to be an unpopular opinion, however.

We may have gone as far with this thread as we can without getting too deep
into politics for civility.

Carol Ely
Louisville

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