Confederate Statues
Over this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia a white supremacist protesters descended on the city to protest the city’s plans to take down confederate monuments like the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. This event made various other towns like Lexington, Kentucky and Durham, North Carolina speed up their own town plans to tear down confederate statues. However, the Civil war ended in 1865 why now, 152 years later are towns taking down confederate statues?
Lawmakers in Richmond, Virginia have made the decision to keep the towns confederate statues even though they are found to be offensive to people who live there. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney earlier this week said,” For me, it’s about telling the complete truth. I don’t think removal of symbols does anything for telling the actual truth or changes the state and culture of racism in this country today.”
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https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/16/16151252/confederate-statues-white-supremacists Do you think towns should remove confederate statues?
Do you think taking down these statues will erase the past?
Do you think it is thoughtless for towns to keep these statues up when they are offensive to the people who live in town?
Hi Marissa, I believe that towns should not remove the confederate statues. No matter how many people disagree with them being there they provide lots of town history and show our past as a country. Regardless of how many statues are taken down, it does not change the fact that this did happen and nothing can change it. Over 100 public schools have some type of confederate display near them. Many of these schools are also named after confederate symbols such as Washington-Lee High School in Virginia. What will happen to them? Will those schools become defaced as well. One of the major questions about this whole situation is where will it all stop? The answer is it won't. If they get all of the statues down what's not stopping them from going to a museum and start a rally to get rid of pictures and artifacts in there. This is just the beginning of the whole issue and it will not stop for a long time. Anyone that is easily offended about the statues can not change the fact that the issue did happen. If it really bothers someone and they strongly support taking them down they should do it peacefully by going to the town or even the state. Forcefully ripping confederate statues is not the correct way to do it and just causes more problems in the long run.
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