It's a three-page story, with basically seven lines of facts that matter. The District of Columbia mayor went out weeks ago and appointed a committee to survey the statues and memorials in DC. They came back this week and recommended that the Washington and Jefferson memorials be “removed, relocated, or contextualized”.
On top of that....a list of another dozen-odd characters were put on the 'bad-boy' list (to include that nasty Alexander Graham Bell).
I looked over the commentary, and then asked myself....what exactly is contextualized? It sounds like some type of minor operation where you'd have something on your body removed.
Well....it basically means you add a great deal of text or counter-statements....to explain the entire situation. You aren't exactly fixing anything.....you simply are presenting another argument.
Fact-checking? Well....yeah, it's basically official fact-checking by someone.
The chief problem? Once you go and contextualize something....the next day, another guy arrives, and he wants to contextualize your contextualization. That means he wants to explain how your comments were wrong or stupid.
A day passes, and a third guy arrives, who wants to contextualize the counter-contextualize statement going after the original contextualization. Does it ever end? No. That's the amusing part of this discussion.
How to resolve this? It's pretty simple.
Various studies have been done with the geographic and cultural situation of Washington DC, and it's time to draw the map of official buildings in the District 'quarter', and return approximately 80-percent of DC....back to Maryland.
Yes, it would relieve the burden upon the mayor, and the district population....they'd finally find relief.
The official district area left? You'd go and appoint a federal governor (two-year term), allowing the President to select the individual (yes, it could be a Naval admiral or Army General).
Creating a problem for Maryland? Presently, Baltimore is the 'heart' of the state and is where all problems exist. If you floated the DC suburbs back into Maryland, that would now out-rank Baltimore, and create an immediate discussion over public safety. They'd have plenty to keep themselves busy upon.
Trump could easily flip this into a quick deal....suggesting that he'd sign the paperwork to start the land transfer, and various states could pass legislation to allow the movement to occur. Let's be honest, we already did this with Alexandria and Arlington (being transferred back to Virginia).
