We begin the school year with a quote from William Faulkner, a U.S. writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature:
The past is not dead--it's not even past.
Consider the quote in the light of the recent events involving the fate of public monuments and spaces dedicated to people associated with the slave-holding South, the Confederacy, and the Jim Crow era.
The NY Times articles are here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/protesters-in-durham-topple-a-confederate-monument.html?_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/us/unc-silent-sam-monument-toppled.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/confederate-statues-south-legacy.html
1. What is your reaction to the people in Durham and the University of North Carolina pulling down the monument of the Confederate figures? Do people have the right to deface or destroy monuments they find offensive?
2. What does the author of the second article mean by title, that Confederate statues are "the easy part"? What is the hard part?
Plan on discussing your responses in class.
Your responses must be typed, 12 pt Times New Roman and double-spaced on a sheet of paper.
Due Tuesday, September 10
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