The question of the monuments’ removal comes after several US states...have withdrawn the Confederate flag, acknowledging it as a symbol of racial hate...The [statues] are on public land 'which means that African American tax money is being used to maintain them', [says Carol Bebelle, co-chair of the Mayor’s committee for racial reconciliation]. 'What does it mean to be a city that pays tribute to part of its history that was about oppressing the major portion of its population?' — The Art Newspaper
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not knowing the impact these monuments have on local residents and assuming some are very old but others may be as recent as the 1940s I wonder if the removal of a war memorial is a distraction or not?
Also I am concerned about removing reminders of our past where political differences (over slavery an evil institution that was once part of all 13 colonies) divided our country and lead to a civil war, we may not be too far from this happening again. Keeping the monuments around of the civil war may help remind us of the cost of irreconcilable political differences, but please take down the symbols appropriated by hate groups. Good ridden to Nathan Redford Forest monument on the side of a mountain in Georgia and take down the stars and bars because it no longer has a place in our civil society.
this the humble perspective of an ex Union Civil War re-enactor, and current history buff.
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