A possible summary is:
The transcript is from a segment of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he discusses the controversy over Confederate monuments in the US. He argues that these statues are not accurate representations of history, but rather symbols of white supremacy and slavery that were erected to intimidate and oppress African-Americans. He shows how many people are ignorant or in denial about the true cause of the Civil War, and how some Confederate figures themselves were opposed to being memorialized. He suggests that these statues should be replaced by more deserving and relevant figures, such as Robert Smalls, Bessie Coleman, or Stephen Colbert. He uses humor, sarcasm, and facts to make his point.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Jimmy Savile was a British TV personality who was exposed as a predatory sex offender after his death.
2. The Confederacy was a group of states that seceded from the United States and fought to preserve slavery in the Civil War.
3. Many Confederate monuments were erected decades after the war, often by white supremacists or in response to civil rights movements.
4. Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general who opposed statues of himself and other Confederate leaders.
5. Larry David and Anderson Cooper are celebrities who discovered that they had slave-owning ancestors on Finding Your Roots.
6. John Oliver suggested replacing some Confederate statues with more positive or relevant figures, such as Robert Smalls, Bessie Coleman, an alligator, and Stephen Colbert.
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