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I still want to know who 8 is bruh

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we thought 5 was lila

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girl, no I am not reveling

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This is Lila, but I'm guessing y'all knew that.

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same 5 😎

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bsfs...

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8 who are you ms girl

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the hitler is way way worse than confeds

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i am so anonymous and cool

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I compared hitler and our statues I never said it was right

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8, but it's not reminding us of the evils we beat it's glorifying racist old men.

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The reason for the statues from the very beginning, is to honor those who fought for slavery. Thats why more showed in the civil right movement.

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lol same

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EXACTLY

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Someone just said yes to a statue of hitler. I'm choosing to ignore that.

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Whats the point of flexing racist people we beat? That is not the point of them

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To show the evils we beat duh

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8, If if the statues of confederate of people are reminding us of the evils we beat then why are we trying to keep them?

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7, are you in favor for taking them down?

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and we don't want that, at least i dont

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Because it would be glorifying hitler. Like we are doing now

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racists

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Racist

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6, I mean that the symbol isnt for racism and feeling bad, its quite the opposite it is to show the evil people we beat

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Both of what?

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racists but a little bit of both

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I think its racist as well. I don't understand why people continue to hang it up

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Not trying to change subject, just think that conversation is going nowhere :))

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Racist

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Ok, another question because class is almost over. Do you guys think the confederate flag racist or offensive?

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What do you mean?

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Like she just said, now that I think about it they could be meaning that we beat them and they are the evil people we beat

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kinda are just by keeping them up and making people feel about about their selves
instead of taking them down

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Why should we not try to correct our future. Texas has a bad history, so we need to prevent that from coming any further by educating our future voters and presidents by explaining why they're racist and what we can do to apologize and make up for our past.

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Though we have thousands of monuments in their names? Of their faces?

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We are not worshiping them

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Agree with 7

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Of course we cant forget about it. We cant erase history but we dont need thousands of monuments about them.

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no one said we were gonna forget about them. we are just saying they should be taken down bc we should not be glorifying/worshipping racist men

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8 But we cant just forget about it

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oh bruh

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You are right we can't change history, bu why not try to take statues down that remind us of our shameful past. Every time I pass a  confederate statue I feel shame, not pride.

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i agree with 5

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Also 8, you are kinda supposed to write in the bottom section just a heads up

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Just because it was normal doesnt make it ok. I understand, there are thousands of statues, symbols, monuments that stand for racist old men but that doesn't make it ok.

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Like Mrs. Clay just said most of these statues were put up in the Civil Rights movement, I wonder why?

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8 and we cant just change history. I know it was racist but its history and you have to live with it.

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8 and we cant just change history. I know it was racist but its history and you have to live with it.

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So its ok to have a statue of a slave owner, a racist idiot, because it was normal. What?

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8 they changed the name of a school that was named after john tyler that owned a slave. Bro I think all presidents owned slaves back then it was a normal thing. John tyler was a freaking President!

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8 they changed the name of a school that was named after john tyler that owned a slave. Bro I think all presidents owned slaves back then it was a normal thing. John tyler was a freaking President!

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Their meaning is just what you said, glorifying racists who fought for enslavement. Why not put statues up of Union soldiers?? They fought for equality

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What is the statues meaning and symbol?

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but their racists men who shouldn't be worshiped

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What 6 said

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ily 6

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We're also just glorifying racist old men who would probably commit a hate crime.

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Statues have a meaning and a symbol

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boy its racist

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changing my opinion...they should be taken down

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8 hundreds of thousands of dollars to take a dumb statue down?

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8 hundreds of thousands of dollars to take a dumb statue down?

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ok, I understand that but they really shouldn't have been built in the first place

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true

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We have enough money to take statues down.

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8 Its kinda dumb the statue cost thousands of dollars to take down. Do our parents really want to be paying taxes for that?

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8 Its kinda dumb the statue cost thousands of dollars to take down. Do our parents really want to be paying taxes for that?

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I think its worth the money the statues are of racists men who fought for the enslavement of African Americans

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because yeah it's history and it did cost money and it took time to build it and it shouldn't just be taken down

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8# so? they are taking names of schools away because the president was a confedarate

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8# so? they are taking names of schools away because the president was a confedarate

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5 They fought for "freedom of their state" right? That freedom is freedom to enslave and have inequality and white power

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5 They fought for "freedom of their state" right? That freedom is freedom to enslave and have inequality and white power

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I think that confederate monuments should be renamed or taken down because it reminds us of our shameful past enslaving people.

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me either

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