No one will grieve the loss
of Edward Colston, knocked from
his perch in Bristol. Taking
him down, unharbored, is
how black brothers and sisters
remodel the thrust defiant fist
of Jesse Owens, replay Kaepernick
taking a knee. Everywhere,
from Washington, D.C., to L.A.,
from the tobacco fields
of Richmond to Deep South cities'
cobbled streets, the old monuments
fall with protested memories
of four hundred years of blood
spilled in the holds of slave ships,
among New World forced laborers,
in chil
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