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I think what actually happened is something more like this:

1. Clinton/Bush/Obama years - everyone gets lulled into the idea that racism is pretty much gone in America or is relegated to small, extremist groups with little to no voice or power. No biggie in letting sleeping dogs lie and no one really pays attention to the slavery/racism issues or the statues.

2. Candidate Trump comes along and his rhetoric - whether intentional or not - ignites a fire in the previously extremist ideas that the majority of the country thought were dead and gone. They start speaking out - they have a new voice - and are given new life by what they perceive to be support at the highest levels of government.

3. There is a backlash against the now rising extremist racism in the country which, in retrospect, was already simmering due to the perception that police were shooting/killing minorities on a regular basis and getting away with it. This backlash raises awareness and public visibility of the long-standing statues that were tributes to racist ideals and people. Prior to this, most people were probably ignorant of the racist statues that hid in the open all around them because they grew up with them and never put together the racist honorific that these statues really were.

4. Statues get taken down as both a statement against past racist ideas and as a statement against the current perception that racism and extremism is now accepted, if not directly condoned, by the Executive.

Should have stopped at “I’m not sure about this”

Unique perspective and I believe partially right. However, I think the White Nationalists acting a fool and engaging the left (ANTIFA) versus protesting peacefully and legally brought this to the headlines somewhat and it just gained momentum like a runaway locomotive on a downhill mountainside ride. IMHO.