
so in your research for the book, did you find that the removal of statues served as a kind of quick cathartic release? it's substituted for real change or did you find that theseĬommunity is really important in especially in these days when all we all keep talking about how america is fractured and we don't talk to each other. we are making the courthouse look more equitable without reckoning with the institutional racism that takes place inside. the headline controversial memorials are surprisingly easy to pull down fixing the world that built them is harder or as one black activist put it about the removal of a confederate monument from the charlottesville courthouse quote. you cite in one of your footnotes for instance bears. i mean, then there are critics you say that these fights are more about performance than substance that there's a washington post article. the company seems to be in a kind of all-out war over the stories. you know, i think whether it's sort of liberal activists taking down confederate statues or conservative is banning library books and curricula about america's long and ugly history of racism.
