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Richmond Mayor: 'These monuments were an attempt to create a new narrative for the civil war’

Today the largest remaining Confederate statue in America was torn down. The Mayor of Richmond, Virginia Levar Stoney joined the 91Èȱ¬ to discuss the removal of the controversial monument of General Robert E. Lee from his city. "‘There’s no other country in the world that erects monuments to those who took up arms against their country," he said.

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