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And lincoln forium chair. Welcome back to cspan, sir. Guest thank you for having me. Host you had a recent op ed talking about the topic of confederate monments and statues and a position now youre taking that with a little bit different. Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by m
Whats your position now . Guest well, if i could go back briefly. A few years ago i had the honor of speaking at the getiesburg National Cemetery where the flag behind me is from the anniversary of the getiesburg address. I made a suggest sort of impor tuned people to consider contect liesing confederate monments. Making sure that there were alternative monments. And frankly Nothing Happened in the three subsequent years. Its not an easy thing to make occur. Its expensive, time consuming, requires consensus on text and methodology, and it didnt work. And since that time, other convullsive events have occurred most recently of course the killing of george floyd and the response has been directed at monments among other institutions that are deemed by many to be op pressive particularly confederate monments in the Public Square. And i did write an op ed recently during which i said that i think i was wrong. That weve had enough time, weve had a century for these statues of those who foug
It, 202 7488001. If you are unsure, 202 7488002. You can also text us at 202 7488003, message us on twitter at cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. A harris it was from poll that was released on the 23rd of june. 58said that at the time, percent of respondents said the statues should remain, while 42 say they should be removed. A number of confederate monuments were torn down in cities across the United States recently. If you go to the u. S. News website this morning, an activity that took place yesterday in georgia this is reuters reporting a predominantly black group of heavily armed protesters stormed through a park in atlanta, calling for the removal of the confederate rock carving that the site that civil rights activist consider a monument to racism. Many were dressed in paramilitary style clothing and wearing face scarves, quietly parading down the sidewalk at the park. Supremacists have historically used Stone Mountain as a rallying spot of their own. Thats in stom