Essay On Confederate Statues

The South known for its abusive nature towards blacks. In the past southern states have found ways to discriminate against African Americans, from Jim Crow Laws to making it impossible for whites and blacks to marry. For example the Black Codes were law passed in 1865-1867 by southern states to compel blacks to work for low wages and to restrict their freedom (wikipedia). The South newest form of discriminating against its black population is by keeping their confederate statues. Confederate statues should be torn down because they are a symbol of white supremacy, a symbol of how southerner rewrote confederate history, and they glorify leaders who fought for slavery. These statues are a symbol of white supremacy and for that reason they should be torn down.. Vox senior reporter German Lopez, a person how has nearly wrote thousand article wrote that Charlottesville incident as an example of how both neo-nazis and white supremacists will

Though I do agree that confederate history should be preserved, these statues aren’t historical artifacts because none of them were built during or around the Civil war. A real historical artifacts would be a confederate uniform or a flag from the war. The only reason why many of them were erected was that of lost cause movement. The United Daughters of the Confederacy lead this social movement and their main objective was to rewrite confederate history in school textbooks (Coleman Lowndes). They glorified confederate heroes, made it seem as enslaved people were happy and that slavery wasn’t the reason why the civil war happened (Coleman Lowndes). In the end, the argument that oppositions makes that of tearing down confederate statues is wrong because it is erasing history is hypocritical of them because confederate statues were built to erase certain aspect of southern