Taylor Swift can’t stand 'racist historical' monuments in Tennessee: 'Villains don’t deserve statues'
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 2019 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Nov. 24, 2019 in Los Angeles.sounded off in a Twitter thread today about the state of two specific Confederate monuments in her home state of Tennessee.
"Taking down statues isn’t going to fix centuries of systemic oppression, violence and hatred that black people have had to endure but it might bring us one small step closer to making ALL Tennesseans and visitors to our state feel safe - not just the white ones," she wrote as part of her lengthy argument."We need to retroactively change the status of people who perpetuated hideous patterns of racism from 'heroes' to 'villains.' And villains don’t deserve statues.
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