If white supremacy is ever going to collapse in the U.S., the same things have to happen here. Charleston, where nine African-American members of the Emanuel AME Church were murdered last week on account of the color of their skin, seems like a good place to start. The people there have an opportunity to make a statement like Russians did by changing which history they celebrate....

In all the news coverage of the shooting at Emanuel AME Church, it’s rarely been mentioned that it’s located at 110 Calhoun, a street named after John C. Calhoun....

Marion Square is on Calhoun Street half a block from the Emanuel AME Church. Its most prominent feature is a statue of Calhoun standing on an 80-foot high pillar. The base of the pillar has a marker reading “1787 – 1850: Truth, Justice and the Constitution.”...

This statue in Charleston’s White Point Garden was recently “vandalized” with graffiti saying “#BlackLivesMatter.” It was erected in 1932 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and funded by a $100,000 bequest in the will of Andrew Buist Murray, a wealthy Charleston businessman. Inscriptions read “To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston” and “Count them happy who for their faith and their courage endured a great fight.”