Persuasive Essay On Confederate Monuments

Confederate monuments should be removed because they glorify and exemplify slavery, they highlight the country’s dark past, and are a symbol of white supremacy. Confederate monuments should be removed because they glorify slavery. The government should not honor leaders who defended and fought for slavery. The statues serve as a painful reminder of a dark past that involved the slavery of African Americans. The Confederate constitution upheld slavery. Slavery promotes social racial order. It denies the premise that all men and women are equal. It propagates the belief that people of color were inferior to the White population. Confederate monuments are typically located in public spaces such as City Halls, parks, and traffic circles, and are seen by thousands of people everyday. When people cross these monuments, they are reminded of the painful past experienced by the slaves. “Zyahna Bryant, an African-American 11th grader in Charlottesville”, is “offended every time”[he passes] it” and is “reminded over and …show more content…
They are a symbol of the South’s rebellion and the South’s secession from the Union. One might argue that the confederate monuments should not be destroyed, because they signify the country’s history that cannot be erased, however this is faulty logic.There are parts of our history that should be upheld and preserved with honor, while there are others which should not be. Though these men might have proven to be courageous and valiant in the war, they fought for and supported the wrong cause. It is unfortunate, that there are still people who honor Confederate leaders who divided the nation in order to preserve slavery. New Orleans Mayor, Mitch Landrieu, says that the confederate monuments honor “an overly simplistic view of the confederacy ‘Ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and terror that it actually stood for’(Monumental Battle,