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i.           Twilight of the Idols In the town square of Salem, Massachusetts stands a bronze statue of my ancestor, Roger Conant. An imposing, imperious white man, Conant looks grimly out from beneath his tall pilgrim hat and his windblown cape. The monument itself offers only the briefest explanation of whoContinue reading “A Bronze Statue of My Ancestor: Reflections on Reparations”