backbone to drag the past into the light and put a spo light on what actually has happened so we can figure out how to move forward honestly and constructively and with a sense of repair. so what does marking our complicated history in context look like to you? does that look like some monuments coming down, others going up? ways in which we celebrate or mark our history that are more sophisticated and complicated than the stone statues? i am tempted to be glib and say yes. i think all of the above is accurate. some of them need to come down or go into some kind of national museum of american crimes against humanity frankly and probably those monuments need to go there where we can see them and note the harm they ve done and children need to go to school and learn about the history of how monuments are