A professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham is receiving backlash on Twitter Monday after she launched a series of tweets instructing protesters about how to successfully pull down monuments, as rioters torched the nation’s capital over the weekend.
Sarah Parcak, an Egyptologist who specializes in ancient architecture, says she is an expert on obelisks, the shape of the Washington Monument. She noted obelisks “might be masquerading as a racist monument.”
Washington, D.C., was set ablaze, and stores were looted and destroyed over the weekend after a series of protests turned destructive following the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer after being arrested on a forgery charge.
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