"Theodore Roosevelt, who had fought in Cuba in the Spanish-American War, assumed the U.S. presidency on September 14, 1901. He agreed with his predecessor that the Filipinos were not capable of self-governance." ~ Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University Tell me how to stop caterpillars from making lace of the emerald leaves of bok choi, how to keep new saplings from drowning in a fortnight of rain. I learned that trick with beer and salt for slugs, but can't bear the sight of soft bodies shriveling up as if doused in smoke. But it's a different thing, this business you say you don't or won't understand— of heaving a frieze of confederate daughters into the air, breaking statues off their pedestals, removing plates engraved with their grand- sounding names. Metal or marble, stone carved in the visage of a man flanked on the one hand by a black body and on the other by an Indian one, whose decisions led to villages razed to the ground and a general's orders to shoot everyone, man, woman, child, on sight. History likes to remember only what art can beautify with gold leaf and laurels; what it can plunder for future museums.
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