Dear America: Your Heroes are Not Necessarily My Heroes
“Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps.” – Public Enemy, Fight the Power, 1989 Over the past several weeks many venerated American heroes have had their status challenged by the current movement for social justice and reckoning with the history of systemic racism. Statues and other monuments have been removed, or torn down; names have been removed from buildings and college campuses. It is a moment that America has avoided for far too long. As a result, it is making some Americans very nervous about what hero of theirs is next in line. For others it has...
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