he didn't need any advice from me, and i gotse to delve into t important reasons he thought this wasuc important to do and whenen sentencing him to communy service. but what wass interesting to me was not so much the it but the arguments that went on. there were thousands of them. people would sayt things like, well, what's wrong with columbus anyway, or it's somehow uncivilized or funhuman to tea downnd statues at all. i thought have none of you ever ripped ast photograph of your ex-from the fridge before? it's a very human tendency. so practically everything that i study was at some point toppled and thrown into a pit by people who wanted to forget about it. i wanted to explain how changing statues is b something that happens really any time regimes shift, any time communities come to a new understanding of who is and who should be in power. andul america has just been exceptional in having a long period of stability of statues so to speak because we have had a very dominant model of who should run thezi country for a longd time. and now that we are starting to really have shifting q