What to Do When Our Heroes Fail Us
Can we learn to live without the people we once revered?
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6 min readAug 4, 2020
In the past few months, the American media has been filled with images of protestors pulling down public statues of racist historical figures — many of them Confederate soldiers. A startling number of these statues were created during the Jim Crow era for the express purpose of intimidating Black Americans…
