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The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in the center of the renamed Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia | Protesters raise their fists during a Black Lives Matter demonstration (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump and GOP: Party of the dead

David Masciotra
Painting of the Boston Massacre showing Crispus Attucks, one of the leaders of the demonstration and one of the five men killed by the gun fire of the British troops, as he is shot. The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 and was a preliminary riot in the War of Independence from the British. (Getty Images)

We need monuments to Black resistance

Jeff Biggers
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox & Friends (Fox News)

Graham vows "war" on statue protesters

Igor Derysh
Donald Trump | A statue of Confederate States President Jefferson Davis lies on the street after protesters pulled it down in Richmond, Virginia, on June 10, 2020 (Getty Images/Salon)

Why does Trump care about the statues?

Amanda Marcotte
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump's RNC speech syncs with race riot

Roger Sollenberger
The Castleman statue in Louisville, Kentucky, after it was vandalized in 2018 (Ashlie Stevens)

Kentucky removes Confederate relic

Ashlie D. Stevens
The Ku Klux Klan protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Getty/Chet Strange)

Charlottesville vs. the neo-Confederacy

Kali Holloway - Independent Media Institute
Mississippi state flag in front of the state Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

Will Mississippi's flag come down?

Amanda Marcotte
A statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest sits in a park in Memphis, Tennessee (AP/Adrian Sainz)

Memphis Confederate statues come down

Matthew Rozsa
City workers drape a tarp over the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Emancipation park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

Different states, different responses

Lauryn Higgins, Nick Lingerfelt - Salon Young Americans
South Park (YouTube/South Park Studios)

"South Park" takes on Charlottesville

Gabriel Bell
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Noonan: statue sympathizer

Charlie May
(Getty/Enrique Ramos Lopez)

The American Mengele?

Stephen Kenny - The Conversation
Stonewall Jackson (Salon/Flora Thevoux)

Who the hell was Stonewall?!

Bill Scheft
Christopher Columbus (Getty/Hulton Archive / Stringer)

columbus history fail

Matthew Rozsa
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" exchange insults with counter-protesters as they attempt to guard the entrance to Emancipation Park (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

the trouble with open carry

Jefferson Morley - Alternet
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

nowhere to go for "alt-right"

Alessandra Maldonado
Richard Dowling Statue in Hermann Park, Houston, Texas (Houston Parks)

Statue Bomb plot foiled

Gabriel Bell
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

tear them down

D. Watkins
White nationalists walk into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. (AP/Steve Helber)

a big fail on charlottesville

Taylor Link

Maher trolls Confederates

Sophia Tesfaye
Tim Scott; Donald Trump; Bob Corker (AP/Andrew Harnik/Susan Walsh/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Moral authority is compromised

Angelo Young
Confederate General Robert E. Lee Statue, Dallas; Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, Richmond; Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, Richmond (AP/Tony Gutierrez/Steve Helber/Salon)

Black support for Confederates

Alessandra Maldonado
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

dixie and the donald

Taylor Link
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