‘You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument’

Caroline Randall Williams, a poet, educator, and a writer in residence at Vanderbilt University, in the NYT asserts that “the black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them?”

“I have rape-colored skin. My light-brown-blackness is a living testament to the rules, the practices, the cau…