What We Forget in Memorializing

Aug. 31, 2017 • Stephanie Adachi

Out of the whirlwind of statements that have come out from the President’s mouth over the past couple days, I could not wrap my head around the fact that Trump doesn’t understand what a Robert E. Lee statue means or its significance. He threw George Washington and Thomas Jefferson into the same category, accusing and questioning if people will start calling for the takedown of monuments of them. But not everything can be black and white, or how Trump wants …