To: The California State House, The California State Senate, Governor Gavin Newsom, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Remove ALL Confederate monuments
Confederate monuments glorify a part of our past that is pro-slavery. We should all be able to vote on a scale of appropriateness as to which monuments we should choose to remain strong figures that reminds us of our past at the national level. President Trump should strongly reconsider his views about tearing down statues that glorify people that fought to keep slavery alive in this country.
At the heart of the confederacy is the belief that white people are the superior race and that black people are subordinate.
What would our future leaders say about these monuments 1,000 years from now? Do we really want to continue embracing slavery as a good thing that some people in our nations history fought to keep during the civil war? Sooner or later someone will begin to question why we choose to keep these figures here on Mother Earth because what we really need is to embrace what we learned from our past, not glorify those who don't deserve this type of rememberance.
There isn't a single monument that isn't representing a bitter hate crime when most are holding a weapon directed outward away from the body, and towards the viewer. It's a hate crime from the civil war because most are representing figures that were alleged soldiers from the pro-confederacy.
At the heart of the confederacy is the belief that white people are the superior race and that black people are subordinate.
What would our future leaders say about these monuments 1,000 years from now? Do we really want to continue embracing slavery as a good thing that some people in our nations history fought to keep during the civil war? Sooner or later someone will begin to question why we choose to keep these figures here on Mother Earth because what we really need is to embrace what we learned from our past, not glorify those who don't deserve this type of rememberance.
There isn't a single monument that isn't representing a bitter hate crime when most are holding a weapon directed outward away from the body, and towards the viewer. It's a hate crime from the civil war because most are representing figures that were alleged soldiers from the pro-confederacy.
Why is this important?
So why is it that we portray statues in major cities of pro-confederates (those that support slavery) throughout our nation? This needs to be reconsidered, greatly. Those who oppose getting rid of the pro-confederate monuments suggest that it erases a part of their ancerstry and it means a lot to them because it's a part of their heritage and their history. However the confederate flag and its monuments symbolize one thing: the belief that owning a black person is right and that they are the subordinate race. Slavery is a harsh and unusual punishment that humans dictated over others and it is wrong. It's not something we should continue to glorify via monuments or flags. We can still teach people our history without making it seem like our cultural views about slavery and freedom seem one sided. Culturally, why do we even have these monuments here? They're not promoting what we want our nation to be which is together AND united. Hate crime has been on the rise since these monuments have landed and if we can get rid of them that would mean a lot to the lives of millions of people that oppose confederate monuments.