Ken Burns: our monuments are representations of myth, not fact

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Does the Jefferson Memorial have a Sally Hemings area yet?

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It could be an interesting complement to the changes at Monticello:

https://www.monticello.org/sallyhemings/

ETA link and spelling update

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I nearly yelled, "You’re damn right!’ at the screen.

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James Baldwin was such a fucking badass. I need to finish working my way through his corpus.

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Maybe people should just stop erecting monuments and begin to look at their fellow humans instead.

Or at least together tear down the “Statue of Liberty”, as it means nothing to Black Americans, and build something new together that means liberty for everyone.

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