On CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time Tuesday night documentarian Ken Burns, who made his name in 1990 with The Civil War, told the show’s host that, in his informed opinion, Confederate monuments …
But Burns had a different take, pointing out that “more than a quarter of the United States presidents owned other human beings,” including Jackson.
“I think we’re in the middle of an enormous reckoning right now in which the anxieties and the pains and the torments of injustice are bubbling up to the surface,” Burns said. “It’s very important for people like me, of my complexion, to it be as quiet as possible and to listen. What I know from my reading of history is that the confederate monuments have to go.
“They are not about heritage,” said the filmmaker. “This is about the reimposition of white supremacy in the South at various periods.”Our monuments are representations of myth, not fact. As we consider what role monuments play in our culture, I’d ask us to listen to the words of James Baldwin from the film I made on the Statue of Liberty.
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