An excuse for supremacists to spew hatred and Trump to tweet nonsense
By Petula Dvorak
August 17 at 1:11 PM
... For some, it was a positive move toward righting history. Michael Brown said the monument deeply offended him every time he drove past.
"Every day I saw it, it was a reminder, a constant reminder," said Brown, a 53-year-old African American pool table mechanic who drove to the site to see the emptiness. "And especially having them here, in front of a place of learning. That wasn’t appropriate. And now we can move on."
But .. of the dozens of folks I talked to, Brown was one of the few who had an opinion on the statue.
"It’s just men on horses. That’s all it was to me," said a black woman walking past the pedestal, still in her chef’s coat, fresh off work. To her, taking time to be offended by a bunch of bronze is a luxury ...
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