This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

One, two, four!

One,

Two! From Birmingham, Alabama to Washington, D.C. all across the country, old Confederate

monuments are coming down.

Many monuments to Confederate soldiers and slaveholders are being taken down either by protesters or by local officials.

In Raleigh, North Carolina, Juneteenth demonstrators tore down two statues from a monument outside the Capitol building.

In Richmond, Virginia, protesters toppled statues of Confederate leaders William Carter

Wickham and Jefferson Davis.

And Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered the removal of a statue of Confederate General

Robert E. Lee.

Yes, that statue has been there for a long time.

But it was wrong then and it is wrong now.

And it isn't just monuments to the Confederacy.

Over 20 statues of Christopher Columbus have come down across the country too,

in cities like Providence, Rhode Island, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

and even Columbus, Ohio.

The Christopher Columbus statue, it is down.

It's the latest form of protest against racial injustice.

People across the country.

These monuments have been falling in the middle of historic protests against police brutality.

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