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States and does that something is it just a political statement because were in a Great Recession were in a pandemic and working people or people been horrendous lee hit by this and i just have to ponder is statues the 1st thing we should be banking about go ahead. Well sure i mean i think i would defer to the former mayor of my state in new Orleans Mitch landrieu who courageously took down the confederate statutes in new orleans a few years ago and his argument was essentially that you know we are a melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not force our citizens to look up to have to look up at you know monuments of confederate soldiers whose goal was to uphold slavery and this is a thing certainly a traumatic experience for someone to see and someone especially someone of color will inevitably see that and wonder well am i actually in a place where i belong culturally does this place actually represent my values if its willing to you know have a monument that
A melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not force our citizens to look up to have to look up at you know monuments of confederate soldiers whose goal was to uphold slavery and this is a thing certainly a traumatic experience for someone to see and someone especially someone of color will inevitably see that and wonder well am i actually in a place where i belong culturally does this place actually represent my values if its willing to you know have a monument that celebrates my ancestors and slaves meds and i think that culturally and psychologically it is important to make sure that those kinds of monuments do not remain are going to those those that are using 90 minutes came down after a Broad Community discussion correct sure because they would see this is well you know i have no attachment to confederate statues and monuments 0 i dont i simply dont i was born that outside boston massachusetts ok and so i dont have that kind of. On the ground cultural hist
Immediately when i got to do it was just green light anything we could do to to get the flames to go away. With firefighters stretched thin during the early days of the czu lightning complex fires, a few locals ignored the Evacuation Orders to try and save homes in their communities. Kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to one man who says he and a group of friends. Were able to keep more than 2 dozen homes and bonny doon from being destroyed. In t shirts involved having on the Santa Cruz Mountains locals pump water onto the burning forest in an effort to save homes. This video was shot by ben lomond native keilar ruskin who says he drove down from where he lives now in reno after hearing about the czu lightning complex fires. Threatening the bonny doon home of his best friend ruskin says he was part of a man squad who in the course of 5 days. Use whatever equipment they could get their hands on locals knowledge of the land to create a perimeter and douse flames. Here now. He says together
And welcome to cross top where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the primary purpose of history is to understand the past as a guide to understanding the present and future history should not be seen as feelgood nostalgia because a lot of history is painful and shame so how should we find the right now is statue side the right answer. Statue site im joined by my guest cleo voluntary in new york she is founder of the company there have been champion which teaches social Emotional Learning in schools as well as diversity and inclusion in companies and Government Agencies and yet in las vegas we crossed out of our it he is an assistant professor of africanamerican and now for diaspora studies at the university of nevada las vegas all right cross up rules in effect that means you can shop and how you want rouse appreciate greatly let me go to you in new york how does taking down statues and we can talk about which ones change the condition of. People of color in the United States