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Orleans a few years ago and his argument was essentially that you know we are a melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not force our citizens to look up to have to look up at you know monuments of confederate soldiers whose goal was to uphold slavery and this is a thing certainly a traumatic experience for someone to see and someone especially someone of color will inevitably see that and wonder well am i actually in a place where i belong culturally does this place actually represent my values if its willing to you know have a monument that celebrates my ancestors an...

Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle the primary purpose of history is to understand the past as a guide to understanding the present and future history should not be goodness because a lot of history is painful and so how should we find the right balance is statue side the right hands. Across talking statue side im joined by my guest cleo both dari in new york she is founder of the company there have been salmon which teaches social Emotional Learning in schools as well as diversity and inclusion in companies and government. Agencies and in las vega...

Winter olympics, which start exactly one year from today. The ioc president thomas bach says its almost a miracle china has managed to prepare for a winter games through the pandemic, but Sophie Richardson of human rights watch, says the Olympic Movement needs to rethink. This would be a miracle. Ending mass arbitrary detention, ending the devastation of cultural property, ensuring that decent human rights environments exist before a warning that government, really the propaganda of posting. This is not a rights friendly of environment, and i think commitments of the con john of the Chinese Go...

States and does that something is it just a political statement because were in a Great Recession were in a pandemic and working people or people been horrendous lee hit by this and i just have to ponder is statues the 1st thing we should be banking about go ahead. Well sure i mean i think i would defer to the former mayor of my state in new Orleans Mitch landrieu who courageously took down the confederate statutes in new orleans a few years ago and his argument was essentially that you know we are a melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not force our citizens to loo...

A melting pot as a city and we really celebrate that but we should not force our citizens to look up to have to look up at you know monuments of confederate soldiers whose goal was to uphold slavery and this is a thing certainly a traumatic experience for someone to see and someone especially someone of color will inevitably see that and wonder well am i actually in a place where i belong culturally does this place actually represent my values if its willing to you know have a monument that celebrates my ancestors and slaves meds and i think that culturally and psychologically it is important ...