I'm not sure how I feel about the people in Durham who tore down the statue commemorating the Confederacy. The release of catharsis after Charlottesville no doubt played a role in this, but catharsis isn't always helpful a few days down the line. They broke the law. They have to be OK with the consequences of that or they aren't really protesting, they're emoting.
Josh Marshall has a very good take on the entire issue of Confederate statuary. Mobs pulling down statues accomplishes very little; communities deciding to stop honoring traitors and white supremacists by collectively removing those statues says quite a lot more.
You can take down the statue by mob action or you can mobilize as a community to have them removed from public spaces. One is harder and better than the other.
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