Over the years the debate for removing confederacy statues has piqued a large interest across the nation. As a culture that prides itself on being diverse and forward the statues are no longer a suitable representation. To continue to honor and preserve these leaders is an undoing of all the progress made to ensure equality. I believe all confederate monuments should be taken down. I believe the monuments should be removed because the most memorable actions of the confederacy was based upon slavery. The leaders were wealthy slave owner who relied heavily on the abuse, oppression, and labor of many blacks. The general Robert E. Lee was honored for publicly being opposed to slavery in his statements but his actions contradicted during the times he went beyond beatings and even went as far as to separate the families. The slave owners did not want to lose their wealth and production methods so they devised ways to coerce other farmers into fighting and ultimately dying for their cause. They would perpetuate that any black person was dangerous and a threat to their families; wanting to protect their families this would convince many farmers to join the cause. …show more content…
The statues do not show progress they show regression according to Kuntzman G. (2017, August 17). “Americans should renounce Confederate leaders the same way Germans renounce Hitler” “Monuments are never about history itself. They merely represent what the people putting up the monument think about history at the moment that the monument is being installed. That's why there were once so many statues of Lenin in the Soviet Union, yet so few now.” In other words, although the statues are gone the past is not