THANK YOU Sista. This is such an accurate, informative and relevant article. You are telling the TRUE story of Amerikkka from the vantage point of its victims: the millions Native Peoples of this land and hemisphere who inhabited it centuries before Columbus or any other European set foot on these shores; the African descended people known today as African Americans, whose ancestors were FORCIBLY brought to this land to be worked like beast of burden to make thieving, lying , murderous Europeans, now known as Americans wealthy. These horrific statues are a history and testament to the brutality, racism, perversion, greed, deception and murder that comprises the American story. I hate all of them and I am elated that municipalities are taking them down. I know that because racist/ fascist thinking and behavior is in the DNA of most white people, whose ancestors benefited from the extermination of the Native People and the enslavement of the African, that these statues will be gone but not forgotten. But all people of good will and intelligence will clearly understand that keeping these statues of enslavers, murderers, thieves, and traitors to American democracy on display will never help this country to progress; and guess what white haters? We people of color are NOT going anywhere.