Removing Monuments Was Supposed to Solve All Their Problems. Surprise! It Didn't.
Confederate statues are gone, but few see progress since 2020
This piece at Axios laments the sum of the left’s ‘progress’ and that it was all for naught… - DD
A vast majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality after police killed George Floyd in 2020 didn't lead to changes that improved the lives of Black Americans, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.
Over months of protests in Richmond that year, police tear-gassed protesters, streets burned and people sprayed graffiti on Confederate monuments that were eventually taken down.
The city's landscape is forever changed because of it.
Monument Avenue is a succession of grassy mounds filling in the plots where the vestiges of our Confederate past stood for over 100 years.
The peed-on Jefferson Davis statue that protesters took down now lies inside The Valentine.
And scraps of other monuments fill a statue graveyard by the city's wastewater treatment plant.
Yes, but: Five years later, the momentum appears all but gone.
The creation of the region's first Civilian Review Board began in 2020, but it's still in limbo.
City Council has yet to adopt the policies dictating how the…
Of course it didn’t fix the “problem”. To fix the problem we need to remove those who wanted the statues removed.