15 Jul 2006
Slavery-tainted Penny Lane to stay in your ears

Maybe we should ban the posting of the "Ten Commandments", since they had their provenance in a war of genocide and were delivered by a mass murderer?

Somehow, I don't think that suggestion would fly very far, especially in a Red State.

Where will this end? Will be take George Washington off the dollar bill because he owned slaves? After smoking is outlawed will we take FDR's head off the dime?

How far down this road do we really want to go?

Liverpool officials said Saturday they would modify a proposal to rename streets linked to the slave trade when they realized the road made famous by the 1967 Beatles song was one of them.

(link) [CNN.com]

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