By Leonard E. Colvin

    We see the symbols  of institutional power and privilege, past  and present, on display each day in this country.

      The values and ideas of these old and new symbols are colliding to determine which is right.

Last week, long after the Portsmouth City Council voted its approval, the city removed the remaining portions of the Confederate Monument downtown.

       It reflects the old Confederacy in the South  when white men controlled the economic and political levers of

power in the city and any political status of African Americans.

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