“...One point of agreement was that it must be a communitywide conversation. ...”
Yeah, right. Like any input from the right will be allowed.
Virginia is for lovers afterall...
When the left demands an “honest conversation” it means “sit still and shut up while we tell you what POS’s you are”. The current frenzy of destroying of historical markers (statues) is the American version of a part of Mao’s Cultural Revolution referred to as “attacking the Four “Olds” of the culture -old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. In 1984, the process was described as “the memory hole”. Whether Stalinist or Maoist, the construction of a fake history justifying the current and future activities of the state must be preceded by removing any inconvenient markers from the past. I get a lot of sideways glances when I refer to ANTIFA, BLM, media, academia and leftists as modern day Maoists. But if the shoe fits, it fits.