White to move and mate in two #594--Caste

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The Origins of Our Discontents

  The next month, the Robert E. Lee monument, a larger-than-life bronze likeness, arms crossed, standing on a sixty-foot marble column in a manicured circle in the center of town, was the last of the four to be removed. His figure dangled from a crane in full daylight and, this time, to cheering crowds.
  Mayor Landrieu gave a speech that day to remind citizens of why this needed to happen. “These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy,” he said, “ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for”.
  They were more than mere statuary. “They were created as political weapons,” he would later write, “part of an effort to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side not just of history, but of humanity”.

--Isabel Wilkerson

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YouTube (18 min interview of cited author) by Amanpour and Company:

Isabel Wilkerson: U.S. Caste System Influences Immigration, Abortion, Racism