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Toppling White Supremacy (2:41) Sergio Hyland
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- Duration: 0:02:41
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Toppling white supremacy. I have to admit I was cautiously optimistic when protests and other acts of resistance sprang up across the nation this past month. Mainly, I was worried that the people's energy would fizzle and things would go back to business as usual, but it hasn't, and that's even more encouraging.It's more encouraging that people have begun to destroy symbolic relics of a racist past. I watched in awe and admiration as people, both young and old, topple statues of white supremacists such as Columbus and Caesar Rodney. These statues are an affront to black life and allowing them to remain would be akin to erecting a statue of Adolf Hitler in Germany. After all, Hitler was to the Jewish people what Columbus was to Native Americans. But I want you all to dig deeper, because the struggle has only just begun. What I'm about to say is heavy, and it should incite, not only your passion, but your anger and rage, and it should motivate you to complete your mission.If Columbus and Hitler are historic equ