Tag: statues

Just Say No To Treason In Defense of Slavery

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 21, 2020

Well, at least something good happened today. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement that workers removed the statue from the National Statuary Hall Collection early Monday morning. Northam had requested the […]

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Latin America’s Problematic Statues

By Erik Loomis

On July 12, 2020

The U.S. most certainly has a lot of problematic statues. But so does Latin America and that reflects the history of racism and genocide just as profound there as here. Moreover, the cultural politics

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Ye Olde Statue

By Erik Loomis

On June 22, 2020

Here’s a statue that definitely doesn’t need to come down. For centuries, in a picturesque Tuscan town near the Mediterranean coast, legions of pilgrims came to venerate one of Christendom

On Complicated Statues

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 22, 2020

This is a fascinating time. I’ve been calling for our racist statues to be taken down for a long time and now it is finally happening at an incredibly rapid pace. This is leading to the natural debate about how far we should go. What about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? What about statues of […]

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The Fight Against Racist Statues Goes Global

By Erik Loomis

On June 8, 2020

The decision to tear down the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond builds on a decade or more of activists seeking to purge the racist monuments at the core of American historical memory. People are incre