For some people these debates about monuments and flags and American identities (what makes America great again) are theoretical, political, academic, historical. And for some people they are all this, and also and primarily personal. The statue is an intimate rebuke to any little child, or any adult, who’s forced to see it every day. This was an older American speaking about his great grandparents who had been held as slaves. This is not that far back.
– Rev. Victoria Safford, “Whose Streets”
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