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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

CHAPTER

The Civil War Isn't Over, Is It?

The debates over whether or not we should take down cruel monuments really show that the civil war isn't over. The only way, i think, really we get to an end for that is truth and reconciliation. There have been 200 plus monumentsh removed from their pedestals since the death of george floyd but almost all of those are in storage. And now we're spending all these preservation funds to maintain what some sort of like north american strategic races in reserve with all these statues.

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