What started the spark of the removal of Confederate Monuments? In Vox.com, German Lopez stated that the reason so many people care about the monuments got sparked back to “the mass shooting in 2015, when self-described white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people in a predominantly African American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.” With the shooting “roof drew a lot of attention for posing with the confederate flag in images that came out after the shooting.” Yes I understand it is a bad representation, but for over ten decades we have lived with these monuments of Confederate Soldiers. The oldest Confederate monument is 116 years old, it was put up in 1901. Yes people say is stands for White Supremacy but I see it as everything that the United States has been through and overcome since becoming a nation. I think that we should embrace the fact that we are all united into one with all the
What started the spark of the removal of Confederate Monuments? In Vox.com, German Lopez stated that the reason so many people care about the monuments got sparked back to “the mass shooting in 2015, when self-described white supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people in a predominantly African American Church in Charleston, South Carolina.” With the shooting “roof drew a lot of attention for posing with the confederate flag in images that came out after the shooting.” Yes I understand it is a bad representation, but for over ten decades we have lived with these monuments of Confederate Soldiers. The oldest Confederate monument is 116 years old, it was put up in 1901. Yes people say is stands for White Supremacy but I see it as everything that the United States has been through and overcome since becoming a nation. I think that we should embrace the fact that we are all united into one with all the