Too Painful

I believe that Indigenous folks who visit the library should not need to walk by a visual reminder of a racist man who actively tried to eliminate their culture. It hurts me to walk by this statue because it reads as a glorification of a spectacularly hideous part of our past. How about we honour the survivors of the residential school system and the efforts being made to reclaim language and culture by first nations peoples, and not their oppressors?

The statue must be removed because it is too painful for it to remain.