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"Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue at Center of White Nationalist Rally" ... “I’m really happy it’s a boring morning, and boring means that no bad things happened ... The ordinariness of this occasion is fine.” -
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The quote is accurate. By saying "boring" and "ordinary," I was drawing a contrast with the deadly white supremacist terrorist attacks on the city and UVA in August 2017. In that sense, a (slightly) boring and ordinary day was a very good thing.
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The day was sober, if not somber. The memory of the traumas that the statues represent (slavery, segregation, August 11 & 12, 2017) were present in people's minds. So was the truth that this important symbolic victory does little to change the lives Black Charlottesvillians.
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