Statues must be replaced with monuments to those killed by American racism

Evidence

Statues, and the lies they reinforce, must be remade, or replaced with new talismans of truth. Truth that stands to give life to ignored histories and to reconstruct them in the image of those killed on the streets of American cities and violently stricken from the pages of its seminal texts. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1163

Categorization

• SEED: Frames a counter-monument essay: what a public memorial rebuilt around murdered Black and Muslim lives would look like.
• 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