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Reminders of an imperial past, of slavery, of other issues which people think are no longer to be tolerated. what's your position on bringing down statues? i think statues don't matter in that. i think there's many more important imperial legacies. but statues are also not history. history is argument. statues are propaganda. they tell you one person's view of one person at one point in history. if that view then changes, it's quite 0k to leave that statue up or bring it down. my preferred solution is to have one day a year where we pelt the statues we don't like with tomatoes and everyone has...

About her future." were you thinking back to those schoolteachers? yes, i had school teachers who would regularly have a go at margaret thatcher over the miner strikes. we had whole lessons on sexism and racism rather than talking about, as i say, the core skills that would've helped children get on. i'm not saying we didn't do english and maths, i'm just saying it was a disproportionate focus on some of those issues. and ifound it really, really frustrating. what's the equivalent now? if that's what offended you then, giving a speech now about people being ashamed of our history, what are you...

And maths, i'm just saying it was a disproportionate focus on some of those issues. and ifound it really, really frustrating. what's the equivalent now? if that's what offended you then, giving a speech now about people being ashamed of our history, what are you thinking of now? what i'm thinking about now is the movement to pull down statues, the attack on winston churchill's statue, the... the sort of focus on all of the negative elements of britain's history. now, i'm not saying britain's perfect, but there are very few countries with an unblemished past, and i think... we should focus on w...

Thinking back to those schoolteachers?- thinking back to those schoolteachers? , ., ,. schoolteachers? yes, i had school teachers who _ schoolteachers? yes, i had school teachers who would _ schoolteachers? yes, i had school teachers who would regularly - schoolteachers? yes, i had school| teachers who would regularly have schoolteachers? yes, i had school. teachers who would regularly have a go at margaret thatcher over the mind of strike. we had whole lessons on sexism and racism rather than talking about, as i say, the core skills that would've helped children get on. i'm not saying we didn...

Hunting deer and fess desantis in the morning and we will all sit around our tables and celebrate our families and be glad that god has blessed south dakota in incredible ways. you talked about a lot of other states that are tearing down statues, south dakota is putting them up. in fact, we are taking the four presidents that are on mount rushmore, we are building statues to them and putting them on our capitol rotunda so we can send a message to the west of the world leaders. they led us through challenging times and we are going to stand behind our true and honest history. >> governor, it is...