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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The rise and fall of America's monuments

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Should We Take Our Monuments Down?

This month marks two years since two thing happened. Part of that involved demonstrators vandalizing and toppling monuments depicting slave holders, confederate traidors and slaughterous explorers. When you're knocking down statues, it's helpful to have the advice of an expert. Aaron thompson is america's first and only known professor art crime. As a professor who studies the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage, let me just tell you, euse a chain instead of a rope next time, and wi'll go faster.

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