Mayor of Richmond calls Confederate monuments 'the fake news of their time'
On 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper took a deep dive into the debate over the removal of Confederate monuments, research that, Cooper says, CBS began in 2017.
During his report, Cooper sat down with Mayor Levar Stoney of Richmond, Va., who, during the recent protests over the future of the city’s Monument Avenue, made it clear he wants the statues taken down.
"The monuments are just a symbol of the effort to ensure African Americans stayed, maybe not in physical bondage, but in bondage in political and economically in this country and in this city," said Stoney, who added, "Those who chose to erect those monuments, and the figures who are glorified in those monuments, they made some serious attempts to ensure that people who look like me would never hold any political office, ever, in Virginia."
Cooper asked Stoney if, following the incident in Charlottesville when white nationalists clashed with protesters over the removal of a Confederate statue, he was surprised by how many people were willing to come out and show their true colors, to which Stoney responded, "I think it woke a lot of people up, not just here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, but around the country."
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