Critics of the statues have said they celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial figures, genocide against Indigenous populations.
People gather around the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia on June 20, 2020.Many of the Confederate memorials in the spotlight today were built long after the Civil War had ended in 1865. In fact, many were, during the era of Jim Crow laws that mandated sergregation and repressed Black Americans.
He continued: "What people are in effect doing is recognizing that before we start to talk about instituting institutional reforms that might actually do something meaningful for this country to move beyond its tortured racial history, we have to deal with the symbols of oppression. We have to deal with the symbols of white supremacy."
While the list of targets has expanded to colonial figures, including those who held slaves or were involved in the slave trade, the conversation in the US has largely been around Confederate statues on public land. More than half of Americans support removal of Confederate statues, but 44% still think they should remain. Many in that group argue the monuments represent Southern heritage.
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