Repairing the story of race in the South
I BELIEVE THAT THE FOUR CONFEDERATE monuments in New Orleans that became a dominating presence in my life for well more than two years never reflected what the true society of New Orleans, generations ago, actually felt when they were built.
The structures reflected what the people who erected them, mostly ex–Confederate soldiers or sympathizers, believed because they had the power to build them and because they wanted to send a
