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?We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a?fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.? ?Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy ? Connor Towne O?Neill?s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people preparing to erect a statue to celebrate the memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the most notorious Confederate generals, a man whom Union general William Tecumseh Sherman referred to as ?that devil.? After that day in Selma, O?Neill, a white Northerner transplanted to the South, decided to dig deeply into the history of Forrest and other monuments to him throughout the South, which, like Confederate monuments across America, have become flashpoints in the fight against racism. ? Forrest was not just a brutal general, O?Neill learned; he was a slave trader and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. O?Neill encountered citizens who still
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