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The answer to what we should do with all these troublesome Confederate monuments?

Just build more statues of other people!

Thats according to Vice President Mike Pence, who told Fox & Friends on Tuesday hed like to see the U.S.erect more statues for heroes instead of tearing down Confederate monumentsthat have graced our cities.

Obviously, I think that should always be a local decision, Pence said.But Im someone who believes in more monuments, not less monuments. What we ought to do is, we ought to remember our history, but we also ought to celebrate the progress that weve made since that history.

He added: Rather than tearing down monuments that have graced our cities all across this country for years, we ought to be building more monuments.

We ought to be celebrating the men and women who have helped our nation move toward a more perfect union and tell the whole story of America.

The debate over Confederate statues most of which were actually built during the Jim Crow era, decades after the Civil War has taken on renewed urgency after a white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally this month in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one dead and 19 injured.

The racist gathering, ostensibly to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, has inspired numerous other cities to consider removing their Confederate monuments.

Language in this story has been amended to clarify Pences remarks.

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