and again this is where hughey long where we would have had the impeach. proproceedings only to fail. >> talk about the man behind the effort to impeach governor long. >> actually he was actually a relative of the family who donated the property for this building. and hughy long after that attempt was to incensed about what occurred to this in this building he had a poor taste in this about tp that was the everyone tis for him toable build the new state capitol built in the 1930s. and it's still the building utilized today by the state legislature and the building in which i served. we will now enter the senate chambers. as you can see it's directly across from the house with the same stained glass windows on each side, facing one another. this room used to have fireplaces also. but have been since removed. and of course through the -- the fire you know the building has been brought back to its original status as best as could be. the one thing i do want to point out is this stain glass window here at the upper end -- i don't know if your camera can catch

why don't we have statues of hughey p. newton who was a black panther?se this represents american sacred ground. the national memory is being not only tested, it's being reinforced. i agree with the professor when we don't have lives at stake. when lives are at stake, we have to talk about what those values mean, what those memorials mean and what we're celebrating in public space with public funds to reinnorse the value of our civilization. >> professor, does it concern you who is taking the side of preservation right now? you have white supremacists down there, you have the president who seems intent on playing identity politics. remember, this is a man when he was campaigning who said the confederate flag's time had past and should be put in a museum. now he sees them as a beautiful piece of history that shouldn't be disturbed. do the motivations suggest this is not as pure a principle as you're putting it out as? >> i think it's very important who is advocating. i think con federal flags obviously had to come down because they were -- that's somethin