Suppression is never the answer nor is turning a blind eye. I won’t pretend to know the answer myself or understand the evolution of this trend in this-day-and-age. What I suspect however is that this trend is more about promoting/subscribing to a distorted reading of history coupled with racist biases possibly due to decades of institutional failures in protecting national history coupled with failures to confront disinformation at every level. Heck forget about history, we’ve got people including high ranking leaders distorting the present with all audio/visual and reporting tools at our disposal today; but then again let’s not get sidetracked. Anyway, untangling the mess now is necessary but at the same time requires political wisdom/tact by leaders who understand the complexity involved yet have the confidence/temperament to navigate through these issues with minimal disruption to national unity; after all they need to deal with the roots not the branches. We also need to have unions that make sense not superficial ones otherwise we’ll have a single point of failure of our base value system; kinda of how it is right now.
Have I succeeded in getting you excited/optimistic? OK, may be we should visit a nearby pub instead…..