The Neutral Ground | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer | dG1fQXhHUEljZzV4ZzA
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00:00It is amazing, in 2015, I'm fighting Robert E. Lee.
00:07This is, it's almost hilarious.
00:09Those statues never should have been erected.
00:12The South lost.
00:14Let's take down these statues and put them in a place of proper remembrance, not reverence.
00:19Four monuments to the Confederacy are set to come down in New Orleans.
00:22The vote is considered one of the most sweeping moves by a U.S. city to cut ties with Confederate history.
00:28But that's not what happened.
00:29That's not what happened.
00:31Backlash over a plan to remove these prominent monuments has led to death threats, intimidation,
00:36and even the intentional torching of a contractor's Lamborghini.
00:40We're live out here at the Jeff Davis Monument. It is extremely chaotic right now.
00:45We cannot have reconciliation without truth.
00:49Okay, here we go.
00:51This, for me, is the closest we can get to the actual Confederacy.
00:55Somebody is going to abuse any institution.
00:58People don't always take care of their objects well.
01:00Right.
01:01Including when that object is a person.
01:03Including when it's a person.
01:08We have intentionally misrepresented this history to our own citizens, on purpose.
01:13These people who are really bigoted, I bet we could just change their minds.
01:19Why, why do you think that?
01:21I don't know, because...
01:23Why do you hold that hope out, that illusion?
01:26These stories are coming out, so I think we're in a different portal of time,
01:29that these things are not going to be swept under the rug any longer.