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touted by now the biden administration and by many major cities around the country, Indigenous People's Day.

And it's worth examining in a little bit of detail how Columbus Day has morphed into Indigenous People's Day.

Because this really, I think, may have been the first step in the United States toward the dissolution of sort of national monuments.

What I mean by that is that there are monuments that had been

argued over for a long time because they honestly ought to be super controversial. So, for example,

Confederate monuments. You understand exactly why people would look at that and go, why exactly

is there a statue of a person who rebelled against the United States? You get that. You understand

that. And certainly you see from a black American perspective why you would look at a Confederate

statue and say to yourself, well, that person literally has a statue for fighting for the enslavement

of my ancestors. The Confederate statue is not a statue to uphold the glory of the United States. It's a

statue about people who were legally speaking traitors. And you understand the countervailing argument, which is that we have to actually recognize the ugliness of our history in order for us to move forward and tearing down those statues is a mistake, that obliterating history in any of its forms is generally a mistake. That's the position of Conno Lisa Rice. Okay, and then on the other end of the spectrum, statues that should not be torn down, you have statues of George Washington, which over the last few years have been hit with red paint.

You've seen statues of George Washington torn down. You've seen actual American heroes being obliterated.

And the idea there is that virtually all American heroes participated in crimes and injustices of their time,

meaning that were very common at the time.

And so most Americans look at those people and they say, okay, what were their historic contributions to the United States

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