Maine Compass: Kennebec County commissioners should remove Fuller statue
They should be leaders and do the right thing.
By Charlie Bernstein
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As they decide the future of the Melville Fulller statue in from of the Kennebec County courthouse, county commissioners should remember that Augusta isn’t just another small town on a vast nation’s map. It’s a state capital — in New England, no less, a region with a history of dogged abolitionism.
Today in America, we’re living through a turning point — a reckoning with slavery’s aftershocks and a recommitment to the possibility of progress.
If we keep the statue of Fuller, a pivotal segregationist as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in front of our courthouse, we’ll be turning our back on history.