Question

A Southern Soldiers View on Slavery

Write for me your thoughts on this in context with the recent removal of southern soldier statues throughout the country.

Do you agree with what is going on? Discuss!

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SOLUTION

A SOUTHERN SOLDIERS VIEW ON SLAVERY

Removal of confederate monumets and memorials has been an ongoing process in the United states for several decades. Many municipalities in the United states have removed the monuments and the memorials on public property dedicated to the Confederate States of America. The momentum to remove Confederate memorials has accelarated after each of the notable high- profile incidents. The removals have been driven by the concepts that the monuments continue to glorify with supremacy, memoralize an unrecognized government whose founding principle was the perpetuation of slavery, and the presence of these confederate memorials over a hundred years after the subjugation of the confederacy continues todisenfranchise and alienate African- American's. Leave monuments marking their participation on the battlefields of the war, but tear down those that only commemorate the intolerance, violence and hate that inspired their attempt to destroy the American nation.

In my opinion, removing historical monuments only removes history facts. If we eliminate historical monuments, what is next ? History books that mention confederate soldiers ? All facts about how africans were brought into the country unwilling? No mention of how our country was developed? The book Tom Sawyer is banned because of the N- word, then the Confederate flag, now all statues of the confederacy. Why don't we just say that ''slavery'' didnt exist. It's all a fallacy. We are doing injustice to the country's history.If we all abolish all the statues and the confederate flag, rename all the flags, parks,building, highways and countries of names connected with the confederacy, then will history be rewritten that there was never slavery in America? Many of the civil war military men were foremely Union soliders with great dervice records, but their service in the Civil war has erased that fact in the history.We should'nt judge history with emotions or being politically correct. We judge our history correctly so we NNwon't repeat mistakes of the past!.