Removing the Robert E. Lee Statue is Progress, But, Um…

The only Confederacy we’ve defeated is the one in bronze and granite — the real one might have won the war

Tim Wise

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Image: Mobilus In Mobili, Flickr, Creative Commons license

First things first: Yes, it’s a good thing whenever any statue to Robert E. Lee comes down.

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)