And should they be taken down? Should they stay up?Īnd in 2017 in my hometown in New Orleans, we removed several statues and memorials of Confederates, including Robert E. And within that is this interrogation of Confederate monuments and memorials and statues. But what's top of mind for me as we end 2020 is the sort of racial reckoning that this country has experienced over the last several months and really over the last several years, both since George Floyd was killed and since Black Lives Matter has begun. Here's Clint.ĬLINT SMITH: Obviously, a lot has happened this year. His forthcoming book "How The Word Is Passed" explores how different sites across the country reckon with or fail to reckon with their relationship to the history of slavery. His book of poems "Counting Descent" won the 2017 literary award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. As 2020 comes to an end, we ask Clint Smith what he's thinking about as he looks back at this year.
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