My novel, Colleen and the Statue, is a love story. However, it also deals with the question, “Is there such a thing as ‘systemic racism,’ or are there only individual racists?” This is a heavy issue—very controversial at this time in American society. The Confederate soldier in my novel—is he only responsible for his actions as an individual who was fighting to preserve his family’s cotton plantation, or is he answerable as a soldier in an army whose ‘Cause’ was to preserve the Southern Way of Life that was based on slavery? A heavy issue indeed. … Bear with me.

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