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We begin in the us, where there are increasing calls to remove pro slavery confederate names and symbols in response to the Anti Racism Movement triggered by the Police Killing of george floyd but President Trump says army bases named after officers who fought for the confederacy during the civil war wont change because theyre part of the american heritage. It comes as police in the Southern State of virgina are trying to Disperse Protesters who attacked a confederate war memorial. David willis reports. They are potent symbols of a racist past, erected in honour of those is thought to keep African Americans of those is thought to keep african america ns enslaved. Now, the statues of confederate generals are being cut down and carried away as a nation incensed by the death of george floyd seeks to turn its back on the past. But the memory of slavery and segregation lives on through army bases, which bear the name of confederate offices, such as braxton bragg. There are ten of them in to

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