journey of personal discovery my great grandfather he was a slave of the only property al-jazeera is james gannon expose his family's legacy of slave ownership you know like my family's status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some over so scar we even skew to speak out because it's a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex statistics in a simple art form i think you're off as a summary sites of opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and to collect data in a way that meets a represents a different community challenging mainstream misconceptions and hope the pie crates and 100 instructions it doesn't and you need people just like people who are like i'm not smart enough to understand this booze truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan and this is that he is on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. we'll. look closely george floyd's brother says the fight is far from over as thousands pay their respe

. >> james gannon, thank you so much. s: great to be with you. >> moving away from the u.s., here in the u.k., the government says the new track and trace system is working in england. tracers failed to get in touch owith one-thithem. the system aims to ensure that when people test positive for the virus, anyo will be notified and asked t self-isolate. here is our health editor. >> if you test positive, you may be contacted to -- by those. hugh: now we have details of how it is working. in the first week, two-third of the people having identified people they hadwieen in contact . >> save lives. hugh: areou a bit concerned that one-third people who have tested positive, for whatever reason, you cilld not get deof recent contact? >> i think the system has worked well, and get two-thirds, it then to have the vast majority, 85% of the context given, self-isolating, that beats myex ctations, too, and the system gets better and better. hugh: here is how contact tracing should work. if i test potive for the officials by phone or

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journalist james gannon is a descendent of general robert lee.is controversial family legacy and the divisions on confederate monuments in america. he joins me now from lovettsville, in virginia. welcome to the programme. thank you very much forjoining us. as we were just saying your country is currently gripped by this debate over confederate monuments. like that of your ancestors which stands in monument avenue in richmond. how do you feel about this? what is your sta nce do you feel about this? what is your stance on it now? welcome of the important thing to remember about these statues and those that say they have to do with history is that that history was never really straightforward to begin with. these statues, whether they were put up in the years following the civil war, oi’ the years following the civil war, or decades or even a century later like many of them were, if you look at the speeches given at their unveiling and commentary at the time, it's clear that although there may have been some it is sent intend to honour history, ther

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i'm james gannon a news editor for al-jazeera. i grew up in this house in virginia in the southern united states my childhood here was a happy one my family weren't rich but we were comfortable. i was particularly close to my grandmother mary hamilton lee it was she the told me about my leave family history. my most famous ancestor general robert e. lee led the confederate army against the union during the american civil war in the 1900 centuries. i was proud that this man considered one of virginia's greatest heroes was a relative i wasn't told that he fought to defend slavery. on the 12th of august 2017 these pictures of racial hatred in charlottesville in virginia were particularly shocking. because that white supremacists were rallying around was the preservation of a statue of my ancestor robert e. lee. i felt outraged that my family name was associated with the k.k.k. and neo nazis. what happened in charlottesville made me consider for the 1st time the true legacy of my slave owning ancestors. i want to know why people in my

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journalist james gannon is a descendent of general robert lee.is controversial family legacy and the divisions on confederate monuments in america. i asked him how he feels about taking down the statues. welcome of the important thing to remember about these statues and those that say they have to do with history is that that history was never really straightforward to begin with. these statues, whether they were put up in the years following the civil war, or decades or even a century later like many of them were, if you look at the speeches given at their unveiling and commentary at the time, it's clear that although there may have been some it is sent intend to honour history, there was a very specific intention to use these as symbols of oppression and symbols to empower white supremacy across the south. so as i look at them now really they are symbols that just have to go. in this current moment we cannot accept that statues two people who fought to uphold the enslavement of human beings can still stand today. in the united states a io—week