re: How does the removal of monuments help blacks?

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They could serve as excellent opportunities to have those conversations that folks don't like having. Something can't have power over you if you don't allow it to do so. Use them as points for dialogue and healing. Hold positive community events around them. Take students to their locations and unpack history in an authentic way. The only thing more powerful than anger and hate is total and complete apathy. Activists have imbued these pieces of stone with far more sinister meanings than they ever originally carried.

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All great ideas and I don't disagree with you. But

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What is gained by their presence, other than some kind of psychological satisfaction for certain people?

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All the points you listed are not tangible and not unique to a statue, save hosting community events around them which is the point of a park, not a statue.