Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves.
— Charles Bukowski
The "people's poet" Walt Whitman is about to be unpersoned; so is Walt Disney.
Whitman's sin was to disparage Blacks in several letters and op-eds; Disney's, to stereotype Blacks in several cartoons.
Erasing Whitman won't be hard. There are a handful of statues of him that can be toppled, and a Walt Whitman Bridge in Philadelphia that can be demolished.
Erasing Disney will be harder. There are those dreadful amusement parks bearing his name, for one thing; and his company's stock is on every investor's "watch list." It's probably best to bulldoze the parks and shutter the company.
Then, thank god, we won't have to watch Hamilton.
