Posted inAccountability Monumental lies by Stan Alcorn, Brian Palmer, Seth Freed Wessler, Fernanda Camarena, Kevin Sullivan, Jen Chien, Esther Kaplan, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Al Letson June 19, 2021July 1, 2021 Statues celebrating Confederates and conquistadors keep old myths alive, with stories of “benevolent slave owners,” heroic colonizers and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” https://reveal-player.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/725_Reveal_PC.mp3
Posted inInequality Confederate monuments topple in Richmond, Virginia by Brian Palmer August 17, 2020June 30, 2021 They were built to commandeer history, to project an immutable myth, to erase reality, to make the horrible majestic.
