Should confederate monuments be torn down or leave them where they are standing I think the confederate monuments should be torn down because they could be offensive to some people and they represent slavery and the dark parts of our history and people don’t want to be reminded of that part of our nation’s history also made the idea that the white race is supreme . These monuments honor confederate solider’s and their leaders (monument video) when in reality they should be honoring the people who stopped the confederacy not the people who. Started it this shows that we are showing honor to the wrong people and not only did the confederacy support people owning slaves wanted to leave the union and make their own country were