“This was a memorial to men who committed treason in defense of the supposed right of some humans to ‘own’ other humans as property,” said James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, the country’s oldest professional association of historians. “The very idea that this monument was still here until today reminds us not just how far we’ve come but how much further we have to go.”
(From a Washington Post story about the removal of a confederate monument in Arlington)
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