"A statue is placed in honor of someone"

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So says the Memphis mayor, Jim Strickland, white member of the NAACP, unabashed supporter of the move to rid Memphis of a racially-offensive Nathan Bedford Forrest statue defiantly defiling a city park.  "Statues are for honoring people."  Is this a revolutionary concept?  Is this belief somehow confined only to cities and towns east of the Mississippi?  Is it one that Estes Park's leaders somehow never learned, or think is an optional criterion in the statue-building field? 

In Estes Park, we use our limited statue budget to honor pedophiles and racists.  And the town just giggles when these concerns are raised and says, "Oh, bother."  If it was their child, their young son or daughter being sexually abused, I wonder if our town leaders would be so quick to dismiss calls asking for removal of monuments to pedophiles?

Margaret Baldwin had a name.  She had a birth mother, Nellie Hollembeak.  She grew up in Estes Park, went to school in Estes Park, and should have been afforded all the rights and childhood dreams every other youngster growing up in Estes Park in the early 1900s enjoyed.  Instead, two men who were friends got hold of her and treated her like their sexual plaything.  And we build statues and shrines glorifying this behavior.

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