<em>The Atlantic Daily: ‘</em>It’s a Bad Week to Be a Racist Statue’
The global anti-racism movement is forcing a reckoning with symbols of white supremacy. In the U.S., that means reopening an all-too-familiar conversation about Confederate monuments.
by Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Jun 11, 2020
3 minutes
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NASCAR banned Confederate flags. The country band Lady Antebellum rebranded as “Lady A.” In Richmond, Virginia, protesters pulled down a statue of Jefferson Davis.
The death of George Floyd has set off more calls for the removal of Confederate symbols. Similar movements and . And yet, America remains a long way off from reconciling with its racist past.
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