We are in a period of intense debate about race - because we have elected a racist President of the United States. Is that too harsh? Not after his descent at Trump Tower, not after his birther: calumny, and certainly not after his inability to directly address the virulent racism on display at Charlottesville, Virginia.
There is a surface plausibilty to leaving up the monuments to heroes of the war to save slavery. Plausible if post-civil rights movement we had erected statues, renamed bridges and roads (other than the de rigeur re-naming of the main street in Black communities).
A few months ago Georgetown acknowledged its debt to the slaves sold by Jesuits to allow the school to remain in operation. - gwc
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