"I think that's progress. I think that represents Americans coming to recognize what those statues were erected for. They weren't erected as memorials for the war. They were very much erected as symbols of Jim Crow, as symbols of white supremacy. I think it's the public beginning to come to the recognition that public space is ours to shape. Right? That when we put up memorials or monuments, we are trying to present a particular memory of the past that we want to remember. And do we want to remember, honor a past where someone like Robert E. Lee was a central figure, a figure of esteem?"
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this week we had the governor of Virginia talk about taking down Lee in the capital of the Confederacy. Isn't that progress?
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Jamelle Bouie
(born April 12, 1987) is an American journalist and columnist for '. He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate magazine.
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