Historian on CNN Endorses Topping Statues: ‘History Is as Much About Forgetting as Remembering’

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WHITFIELD: "When we talk about this while you’re also seeing a number of the confederate memorials that are either taken down or cities have elected to take them down, you know, you have spoken so prelivically about how while The South lost the war it still won in a way by being able to later erect — and why this collective movement is so profound right now. So it is your argument as well as that of so many who are saying this does not symbolize erasing history but instead putting relics of history in its proper place. Would you say that would be museums?
HAYTER: "Right. History is as much about forgetting as remembering and I think what people are really dealing with is the crisis of memories that have been chosen and absurd to think that we can erase history. If you crack open a textbook there are no minorities in those textbooks and they’re dehumanized figures. We have been effective to erase history and what I think people want is a history more in keeping with the people that erected the monuments and people recognize that confederate statutory and the institutionalization of the lost cause cast a shadow on what America has become in paving the road to how we got to now."