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Filmmaker CJ Hunt holds a drawing of New Orleans Robert E. Lee monument in The Neutral Ground.
Credit: Paavo Hanninen
(Paavo Hanninen)
Humor has the capacity to disarm, CJ Hunt discovered in his stints as a middle-school teacher and stand-up comic. It’s part of his toolkit as a producer on
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. But are irony, dry wit and self-mockery effective ways of turning a mirror on racists and Confederate sympathizers, and shifting their thinking?
That’s the starting point of
The Neutral Ground, Hunt’s informative, entertaining, provocative and sobering contribution to the debate around Civil War monuments. The season opener of PBS’ long-running