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Statue of Former Slave Frederick Douglass Torn Down: Is this the End of History?

As of early July 9, 2020, police don’t know who tore a statue of Frederick Douglass from its base in a Rochester, NY, park and abandoned against a chain-link fence on the anniversary of his most famous anti-slavery speech. It wouldn’t make much sense if it were the same kind of protestors who vandalize statues of Confederate figures.

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NY Times Links U.S. Military to KKK, White Supremacy, on Memorial Day Weekend

The editorial board of the New York Times chose Memorial Day weekend to pen a 2,000-word screed linking the U.S. military with the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacy because we have bases named after soldiers of the former Confederacy. Right Angle with Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, is a production of our […]