leupagus:

brainstatic:

A fundamental flaw in the debate about honoring or dishonoring history is that it treats history like it’s over. It’s not, it’s still happening, this is it. Tearing down Confederate statues is now part of the Civil War’s history. More will happen with that history later which you’ll never see. Nothing truly demarcates the past from present. 

The old Faulkner quote is obviously appropriate but it’s something that I’ve been turning over in my head for the last two years: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

the “current events” of today will be the history of tomorrow