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Brutality where individuals lost their lives and what we have the tendency to do is group everything together as the same and what america felts is its rugged individualism. What die mean . Its very difficult for us to look at the case that, lets just say in minneapolis, of where george floyd e george floyd died and the Law Enforcement we think about he was a black guy. Oh, it was white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this to an took place. When you try to make an vanderbilt that the individual who died was black and the person who is responsible was white, you sort of eliminate other human beings who should also he the same moral outrage, too much time is spenting on this herd mentality. Everybody is an individual first and that individual is solely responsible for that action. We should not be outraged because the race of the per ....
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 celebrates my ancestors and slave 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 using money means 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 ....
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 ....
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 ro ....
Agencies and yet in las vegas we cross out of our it he is an assistant professor of africanamerican and African Diaspora studies at the university of nevada las vegas all right crosswalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime 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 and theres that something is that just a political statement because were in a Great Recession were in a pandemic and working people or people have been horrendously 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 Mi ....