Get your eraser out if it’s offensive or hurtful. Tear it down if it’s painful.
This last week has seen the continuation of the cancel culture. Texas schools want to band “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Lori Lightfoot wants to take down “The Bowman and The Spearman.”
First time I saw the two fierce Indians squaring off in Grant Park….
I said, “Daddy? Do those shoot stuff?”
Then a few year later they were showing older footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention with the hippies climbing on top of the two Indians.
….”Dad, Mom! Chicago! On TV!”
The statues have been in Chicago since 1928. Designed by a Croatian artist who left the weapons off the statues on purpose.
Lori wants them gone before she packs her crap and leaves in 2023.
Stop burning books… Stop tearing down statues…
I’d love to erase 1975. The year my mom and dad split apart. I’d love to forget 1978 when I left Chicago for Indianapolis. I’d really love to skip over 2000 when I met a cute girl who just graduated from Kansas and started working on the trading floor. How about 2017 when my marriage collapsed?
Maybe I can call Mayor Lightfoot or Ted Cruz and have them take away the bad parts of my life!!
I can’t do that… it’s part of ME!
I met many of you because of these events. I had three children because of the encounter at the turn of the century.
Indians were massacred, Blacks were enslaved, Jews were forced into concentration camps.
Don and Cecilia didn’t love each other anymore. A single mom thought it would be better to move to a new beginning. A relationship between a Cook County guy and a DuPage County girl failed.
We got where we are through struggle and pain. Occasionally getting a couple days of happiness and hope.
Maybe we can replace the Spearman and the Bowman with a statue of me and my ex wife?
I can be on one pedestal waving my arms and she can be on the other pedestal flipping me the middle finger!
Rip down those Indians and erect the Shepley’s!
Sox lost last night in Cleveland… let’s hope they can win the next two against the Indians.
