Brewer speaks with WABI about Confederate monuments
WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, about the removal of Confederate statues following the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. According to the story, the protests sparked a dialogue on race relations and the contentious statutes that reflect our nation’s history. Brewer said that removing a monument isn’t likely to end the larger debate. “The one thing that you’re not going to do regardless of whether you remove a statue or rename anything, is eliminate racism in American history. And statue or no statue, you’re not going to change that,” said Brewer.