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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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I wish someone would do a study (or maybe someone has) that shows WHEN these statues went up. I'm willing to bet they were commissioned during times when African Americans gained some rights. I could be wrong.
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They went up after the defeat of Reconstruction. That is, at the height of Jim Crow, when white Virginians had reasserted their racial domination of Black Virginians in virtually every facet of life. Late teens & early '20s.
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