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Originally Posted by Acajack
Strongly disagree with this. Regardless of what impact renaming the parkway will have, SJA's legacy is already completely dominated by the image of a racist, genocidal figure.
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Not a fan either, and think that he was quite likely a bad and corrupt person. But isn't this kind of indicative of the problem? Regardless of anything else he did, doesn't founding the country have to rank as far and away the biggest and most important part of his legacy? Most public figures have complex legacies, and I see it as distorting history to focus only on terrible policies. Whatever he was as a person (and let's be honest, we'll never know for sure), he did accomplish some incredibly important things that should be recognized.