On Monday morning’s New Day, CNN hosts John Berman and Erica Hill brought on CNN political commentators Angela Rye and Errol Louis.
He questioned Louis about New York City’s decision to remove a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt: “Talk to me about the significance of this, well because some people are looking at this and saying, saying ‘Oh, they are going after Teddy Roosevelt now, it's proof they are going too far.
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Louis answered that the statue will be removed due to its “blunt” racism:
American history is under attack by the left, and leftist media outlets such as CNN are more than happy to help.
It's so important to see that and to see the support that he’s getting, and Angela, to talk about how he has forced this conversation upon a lot of people, and that's a lot of what needs to happen, too, as we continue moving forward to become anti-racist and to talk about, not just the painful history but the painful reality in this country on a daily basis.
ERROL LOUIS (CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR): Yeah, look, there’s, there’s a lively debate going on all throughout New York City about different statues, what's there, what's not there, what should, what should be there.
