What should we do about racist statues? Tearing them down leaves a void in the public memory but leaving them up is an affront to decency. Could there be another way? — Citations here: https://www.spectacles.news/mini-doc-a-simple-slightly-insane-solution-to-racist-statues/ — Around the world, citizens are debating what to do about statues of slavers, imperialists, and prominent racists. At stake is how nations remember the crimes of their histories, and, in choosing how to remember them, what commitments they make to social justice going forward. Some call for complete removal of such monuments, while others insist that to get rid of them is to dismember history, but we think there’s a different way.