Statues celebrating Confederates and conquistadors keep old myths alive, with stories of “benevolent slave owners,” heroic colonizers and enslaved people “contented with their lot.”
Brian Palmer
Posted inInequality
Confederate monuments topple in Richmond, Virginia
They were built to commandeer history, to project an immutable myth, to erase reality, to make the horrible majestic.
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