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Removing statues is a slippery slope that could lead to the brash removal of monuments to any slightly problematic person.

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Removing history and hiding it from future generations.  leaving out essential people from history and what their impact has made on the future negitive or positive

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Removing the statues would whitewash & undermine our history as the United States.

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Removing the statues would whitewash & undermine our history as the United States.

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Although this specific part of history isn't the best to learn about-nor to acknowledge-tearing down the statues in regards to it would be like attempting to remove a part of history. People are allowed their controversial opinions, according to the First Amendment. The 1st Amendment doesn't only protect the majority, it protects us all, unpopular opinion or not.

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i think the main idea is to not remove the statue just to defeat trouble at all costs

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- The statue's were built to enforce white supremacist views, and the intent or damaging affect have not been erased by time
- Its saying we still have the upper hand
-You cant contextualize racism

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There are other, more deserving people who could be subjects of monuments

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There are other, more deserving people who could be subjects of monuments

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The statues can be used to teach about American racism, and do not need to be removed.

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The statues can be used to teach about American racism, and do not need to be removed.

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As long as the context of the subject is taught, the statues do not need to be removed.

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As long as the context of the subject is taught, the statues do not need to be removed.

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"Of about 5,193 public statues of people in the United States, only 394 are of women, and far fewer are of black Americans or other people of color."

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"Of about 5,193 public statues of people in the United States, only 394 are of women, and far fewer are of black Americans or other people of color."

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Those times were nothing but misery , pain & oppression from the people being worshiped with a statute .

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Its a bad thing to take it down because is apart of history for both whites and blacks and in the south that's apart of there history.We can't take something down because of its meaning cause they can do the same to us but then if they do that in we just gonna protest again.

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Its a bad thing to take it down because is apart of history for both whites and blacks and in the south that's apart of there history.We can't take something down because of its meaning cause they can do the same to us but then if they do that in we just gonna protest again.

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They were the ones making people work & didnt give anything back to the workers because it was slavery & they took everything for themselves .

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Removing history and hiding it from future generations. what their impact has made on the future negative or positive

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“That they were wrong about slavery does not excuse us today from the burden of trying to understand what motivated them to fight 

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“That they were wrong about slavery does not excuse us today from the burden of trying to understand what motivated them to fight 

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and if we take them down it like we are forgetting people that fought in the war or people that lost there life