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With black people in charlottesville. conversations about educational equity, affordable housing, sustainability, all very racial justice issues and these statues only reflect larger and deeper systems that exist in this place and beyond. i think in order for us to have true progress it has to come with the redistribution of resources and a full reconsideration and shifting of systems. >> we have to ask, the platform is still there, they haven't removed that yet, what would you like to see replacing these statues? >> i would like to see some art from some local artist of color but i really wan...

Dropped and brought to storage. white nationists debates whether to move the statue and a rally turned violent and ultimately deadly as neo-nazis fought with counter protesters. now we're live in charlottesville. >> three hours on a saturday morning what they've wanted year the notorious statue of robert e lee that overlooked the park that held the rally also hoisted away. for the one who kicked off the effort to remove the statue was a petition drive in 2016 when she was in 9th grade. it was end of an effort that brought the world to her doorstep. >> looking back to that day in 2017 where peo...

Recent political history. >> very fine people on both sides. >> that created a national movement. >> no sitting president has ever said anything like that. and i realize that things weren't going to change very much with this president. >> but in charlottesville the statues still stood. to removal still tied up in court, the city council voted to shroud them in black days after the protest and in 2017 a judge ruled again they couldn't remove the statues and 2018 a judge ordered the coverings to be removed but charlottesville never changed its mind. the city kept fighting in court. which april ...

To have locatities be able to decide the fate of their statues and monuments. so it's been a very long fight. in 2017 the statues were voted to be removed for the first time, even then i was like, yay, it's coming down. but there's been a long legal fight and there's been a lot that's happened in charlottesville since then, such as august 11th and 12th rallies and attacks, kkk rallies, organized by white spremtists and neo-nazis. >> this is a huge step, how much work is ahead in your view? >> i think that taking down statues is rate and i absolutely implore it but i think it's an empty gesture...

Winning wars. >> tucker: sean parnell, sot nicely put. thanks for coming on tonight. the evidence of the revolution around us is everywhere erasing history, renaming the schools, tearing down statues. what is going on here? they're trying to build utopia. that's actually what it is. a fascinating conversation with a historian and a pretty deep thinker about that question, that's next. ♪ ♪ it starts with our free hearing assessment. plus innovative products that fit your needs and budget. with free service and adjustments for life.