{"id":8682,"date":"2021-09-08T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:40:09","slug":"new-yorkrichmond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-yorkrichmond-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond came down. My book, Monument Avenue, documents the brief moment when<\/span> protesters took possession of the Confederate statues along the grand boulevard of the Lost Cause. The Lee statue was the centerpiece of the ensemble of statues arrayed along Monument Avenue, and with a broad grassy circle surrounding it, became the natural location for demonstrations, performances, and occasionally, confrontrations. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve had mixed feelings about the necessity for removing all vestiges of Lost Cause imagery, but I will give the last word to W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote in 1931:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The most terrible thing about war, I am convinced, is the monuments \u2013 the awful things we are compelled to build in order to remember the victims. In the South, particularly, human ingenuity has been put to it to explain the Confederacy on its war monuments. Of course, the plain truth of the matter would be an inscription something like this: \u201cSacred to the memory of those who fought to Perpetuate Human Slavery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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