Protestors physically toppling statues act as a counter-history to white supremacy
Evidence
I knew, as I stood in front of the statue of Robert E. Lee, the enigmatic Confederate general, that this too, and the avenue on which it stood, would soon face the fury of this new wave of historians who marched instead of wrote. The currents of change sweeping through America’s streets, with even more tides to come, gave flesh, bone, and voice to what Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe longed for: “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1146
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- XREF: connects to: White supremacists erected monuments casting a massacre of Black officials as noble. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 84