If I were the N&O …

… I’d reclaim my Josephus Daniels statue from Nash Square and put him on my own property alongside a statue of Jonathan Daniels, the son who tried to redress his father’s wrongs by making the newspaper a liberal champion. (Until it was sold to McClathchy and decided bland was better.) If I were to dust off my old public relations hat, I’m sure I could write up something for a shared plaque to explain how then was then and now is now, and old Josephus and young Jonathan were both real sweethearts — in their respective racist & non-racist ways, of course.

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