ANALYSIS: Why are protesters pulling down statues in the US?
They are time capsules. But many are not standing the test of time or changed attitudes — especially after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer last month.
Protesters toppled the Christopher Columbus statue into a pond amid calls for more to be brought down. Those behind it have been criticised for defacing public property, but they argue that some US states have made it nearly impossible to remove statues legally. President Donald Trump has refused to rebadge US military bases which are named after Civil War-era Confederate leaders.But many Confederate monuments in America were built long after the Civil War ended in 1865.What was happening during these two periods?
But while some want them to stay because they cling to those ideas of white dominance, others feel removing them takes away a piece of real history — however ugly.Instead of having them in pride of place towering over public parks and squares, they could be reassembled in museums where the context of their histories can be properly explained.
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