My motto is wait until they are cold dead before you praise them, cuz you never know who will come forward with some horrific tale that reveals them to be a total monster.
Don’t name streets or schools after them until you know 100% for sure you won’t have to quietly remove their statues and names from monuments and schools.
American South knows all about this, and Canada is waking up to this issue as well with Mackenzie.
Hell, when I was in school, our English curriculum said Louis Riel and his Metis were savages, good that he hung. Today he is (rightly) hailed as a hero, father of a province and all around inspiration for his people.
Revisionist history? No, They got it wrong the first time and this is correcting that record.
As far as this lady goes, fuck her. She had so much global goodwill and could have parlayed that into a better future for her country … but she didn’t walk the talk and is now just one more POS in power.
Wish those that lavished her with praise and quasi-citizenship would have the balls to denounce her today.
