![]() Kuhn was photographed marching with the white supremacists while they chanted “Jews Will Not Replace Us,” “Blood and Soil,” and “White Lives Matter.” Kuhn said, however, that he was neither a Nazi nor a white-supremacist. ![]() ![]() Jerrod Kuhn, a graduate of Honeoye Falls-Lima High School. Among the many vicious clowns and tiki-torch bearing, racist weenies in Charlottesville, was Mr. There was a news story I caught at the end of last week. Stick them in a museum, if you want, but let’s not pretend these are sacred sites. We do not necessarily need to destroy Confederate statues to do this, but certainly we can reinterpret them, knock them down a few pegs, and re-write the stories that these racist monuments to white supremacy attempt to tell. It is an opportunity to replace dated and damaging interpretations of the past with more complicated, nuanced, and correct stories. For historians, the destruction of monuments can be a good thing, a visceral and often-times important act of revision. It’s what we do, at least metaphorically.
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