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FEINMAN: If Schuyler Statue Toppled, What Else?

COLUMN from PETER FEINMAN If Philip Schuyler Statue Toppled, What Else? Editor’s Note: FYI, William Cooper, founder of Cooperstown (and The Freeman’s Journal), also owned slaves. ‘Reconsidering the Past, One Statue at a Time,” was the front-page above-the-fold headline in The New York Times on June 17. The article begins by noting the “boiling anger” that exploded after the murder of George Floyd. It has gone national. In religious terms, we are witnessing the attempt to purify America by cleansing…