McAuliffe: Confederate Statues ‘Keep Racism Alive’ in America

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McAULIFFE: "Our efforts to date have started a long over due conversation about how we view justice and how we can live up to our own American ideals. But we cannot continue that conversation without acknowledging how we got here in the first place. So, yes, let's teardown those monuments and put them in the museums, the battlefields and the cemetery where they truly belong. But let us also teardown the insidious policies that keep racism alive in our institutions. We must actually live the American legacy that we all seek to honor by ensuring that every single time in this country has an equal shot to succeed, that every single man and woman who's made a mistake has a chance to make it right and that every American has a place to call home. That's what we work hard to do in Virginia under my watch. It's just the start of a transformation that could take generations to be fully realized. That's why I hope this successful work continues. It's an issue that cuts across economic status, race, origin, age and political party. Incarceration and disenfranchisement has torn apart far too many families for far too long."