News Anchor Rips Trump Admin For Odd Signs at Two Local Monuments: History Shouldn’t be ‘Whitewashed Out of Weakness’

Local Colorado 9-News anchor Kyle Clark dropped a scathing commentary on the Trump administration this week for posting signs at two Colorado national monuments urging visitors to report if they “see anything negative about America there.”

“Admitting when you’re wrong is a sign of strength, even when you are a country, perhaps especially when you are a country. Because building monuments to heroes and victories is important, but any country can do that. It takes a special kind of country, I’d even say a great country, to also memorialize mistakes,” began Clark, who spoke on Juneteenth – the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.

“To put up markers saying that errors are also worth remembering, so they’re not repeated. Colorado has two such places. The Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, marking the place where hundreds of Native men, women, and children were murdered in 1864, and the Amache National Historic Site, where Japanese Americans were wrongly incarcerated during World War II,” Clark continued, adding:

Now, a weak country led by insecure people would try to ignore that history, try to bury it. A great country led by strong people is not afraid to say when it has fallen short of its ideals. There are new signs up at Amache and Sand Creek in Colorado, signs put up at the direction of the Trump administration, asking visitors to report if they see anything negative about America there.

I imagine you would read something negative about America at historic sites designed to memorialize mistakes that America is promising not to make again. It doesn’t take courage or strength for a dictator to pin on a chest full of unearned military medals, or for a leader to build a statue of himself, or to order tanks and missiles to parade before him. Americans know those things are actually signs of insecurity, like those literal signs at Amache and Sand Creek. Fortunately, Americans are not that fragile or that small.

Americans know this country is at its greatest when its history isn’t whitewashed out of weakness.

Watch the clip above.