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To Be Clear, White Supremacy Is the Foundation of Our Country. We Won’t Destroy It by Toppling Statues
From the white supremacist “rally” and terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., to the current president’s public defense of Nazis to the recent uproar over HBO’s controversial decision to green-light a new series portraying a Confederate victory, it is clear that our nation is in the midst of a very public—and painful—reckoning with the memory (and…
Crystal Marie Fleming, Ph.D., is associate professor of sociology and Africana studies at Stony Brook University and the author of Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France.