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So @smervosh surveyed a few other cities and academics about where we are now, two years after Charlottesville, and what's become of so many Confederate monuments around the countryhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/confederate-statues-dallas-nashville.html …

Baltimore, which also took its statues down in 2017, has received requests from "pro-Confederate institutions" to buy its statue of an official said. (The city declined.) (here's a story from the day its statues came down: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/us/baltimore-confederate-statues.html …)

One professor @smervosh talked to suggested a symbolic, if not literal, torching of Confederate statues. “That is how you take the power of it,” he said.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/22/us/confederate-statues-dallas-nashville.html …