Washington National Cathedral is removing Stained glass windows honoring Confederate generals

Sanitizing history?

Might as well remove all references to the Crusades, too.

What's next? Censorship of all art?

Time to quit honoring racists with monuments.

These panels weren't emplaced for the sake of history. They were emplaced to honor these individuals, as WNC explains.

We can discuss history without honoring or commemorating these figures.

If anything these panels can be used to teach the history of the whitewashing of Southern history in the US along the myth of the Lost Cause, and the backlash against the burgeoning civil rights movement that these commemorations instantiate.

Sometimes toxic history needs sanitizing.

A church rewriting history to suit its own best interests? ... say it ain't so.

1953

that really says something

I do hope they find a place for the stained glass in a museum somewhere - along with the context of American politics and society in 1953.

Wasn't 1953 the year that the Supreme Court voted that desegregation was to come to fruition at a later date? If so, could the stained glass windows be an attempt to show the nation that desegregation had a tumultuous history?

What is interesting to me is that when people deny the Holocaust they are referred to as Revisionist Historians. However, this effort is called Whitewashing History. Both efforts try to hide the real history. Something is wrong with this dichotomy? I have to wonder why Jews do not want to hide the reality of the Holocause and who and why want to deny the history of the Civil War?