Statue's like "is this ...the Indian Ocean?"

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38. why an African-American?

...I've seen as many or more white youth at these removal events?

But to the point of having someone address this, I'd expect something other than scolding or scorn. What I'd expect is the basic acknowledgement that our nation has fallen short, and sometimes erred in our glorification of individuals who did not have the interests of all of the people of the nation at heart, or behaved in ways that we now recognize as an antithesis to an equitable and just society.

Address the sentiments and anguish behind the demonstrations against these historical controversies, instead of handwringing over broken stone. People need to feel that this country represents them, considers them a full citizen, respects their true histories and often tragic legacies of our nation's founding.

Our message should be as far removed from representing these growing sentiments in black communities and others as 'lawlessness' as we can position ourselves. Give people something more than a call for law and order. After all, that's what's been used to perpetuate these awful legacies of hate, discrimination, and the recriminations which result from all that. Jim Crow was one 'law and order' response to black uprising after Emancipation, a response to Reconstruction. We need more than cops on the beat protecting stone idols.