“Well, history's history,” Kelly said. “And there are certain things in history that were not so good and other things that were very, very good. I think we make a mistake, though, and as a society and certainly as individuals, when we take what is today accepted as right and wrong and go back 100, 200, 300 years or more and say what those, you know, what Christopher Columbus did was wrong.”

Kelly added: “Human history, our culture is an evolving thing. There will be 100 or 200 years from now people that criticize us for what we do, and I guess they'll tear down, you know, statues of people that we revere today. I think it's dangerous. ... I think it's just very, very dangerous and it shows you what, how much of a lack of appreciation of history, and what history is.”