Confederate monuments in New York, a Union stronghold, were never widespread. But what New York lacked in monuments, it made up for with its own version of Jim Crow. Yet here, the man responsible for the largest segregation and degradation of African Americans in the 20th century is still regularly lauded as a genius, an innovator and a master builder. Instead, he should be remembered another way, as a racist who inflicted generational suffering on African Americans across our city and state.