Should Confederate Monuments Be Removed? Share your thoughts and comments here please.
- Cherlonda D. Barrett
- Jul 18, 2020
- 1 min read
WHY WE SHOULD REMOVE CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS?
Here is One Former Teacher's View:
"As a proud former history teacher, here’s why I think Confederate monuments should be removed from our public squares:
All history is instructive and worthy of study, but not all history is worthy of honor.
We must never forget, hide nor stop learning from the ugliness of our history, but we must also be careful that the ugly not be exhibited in places of honor. Monuments in our public squares that celebrate a wrong and un-American cause in a positive light have no place.
They belong in our museums as a reminder that a wrong took place and should not be repeated. I don’t want my grandchildren passing a Confederate memorial and thinking that a “cause” is somehow worthy of honor because it is not. Removing Confederate monuments is not “removing history.” It is removing a dishonorable cause from a place of honor. Let’s move those statues that celebrate a cause we as Americans have long since rejected to a museum so we can learn from them — not celebrate them."
Dan Manning, Hurst
Many want to claim their allegiance to these monuments is for the sake of history. Most of these men were traitors to our country and are the representation of many of the atrocities that were inflicted upon African American's. The time has come for change and we are no longer willing to turn a blind eye to the systemic racism that has held us back and hindered our progress as a people. The monuments must be removed and those military installations bearing the names of leaders of the Confederacy must also be changed. Just as the Washington Redskins Football Team is being renamed, we must right the wrongs of the past and demonstrate our right for equality and justice. …