George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” All the renaming efforts proposed and those that have been accomplished are part of an effort to cleanse our culture of the past. Slavery is an undeniable fact of our history, it will not go away through cultural cleansing, or reaming our places. If the Samuel Thurston excluded blacks from his proposals, then we should know and learn from that, but "canceling" him is the wrong answer.
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