James E. Young

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The Excerpt · Politics of renaming a presidential memorial · 16 Feb 2026 podcast

I think remembering where we came from, both the dark places and the inspired places, is the only way we can make sense of where we are.

We can't possibly understand who we are as a nation of immigrants without acknowledging

the anti-immigrant animus of maybe the turn of the 19th into the 20th century and the backlash in the 1920s.

We can't possibly acknowledge and begin to repair injustice in this country without understanding our origins as a slave-holding country.

There's just no way we can do that.

That memorials and the memorial arc

is now tended toward justice.

And accountability, I think, is a great advent due to the great work of Bryan Stevenson at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama.

I do believe that that is our greatest 21st century national memorial, the National Memorial to Justice and Peace.

otherwise also known as the Lynching Memorial.

And I think that the inspiration of turning memory into accountability and justice will become the new model for memorial making in this country.

Reasons for memorials have evolved.

250 years ago, 300 years ago,

you know, until today.

And we're in a very, very different place today.

And I think that they will continue evolving.

It's going to be very difficult to say what a memorial like this is even going to mean in another 50 or 100 years, but it will be just as important as it is now, with very different meanings.

Absolutely.

It will be.

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