Growing racial tensions and incidents raise the question, why are national parks still maintaining confederate monuments? One of the most controversial of these monuments is the Heyward Shepherd Memorial in West Virginia. Although they are increasingly being viewed as racist, especially the Heyward Shepherd Memorial , many in government believe they should be preserved due to the historical significance and as as markers for battlefield visitors.
The city of St. Louis is busy beginning preparations to remove all Confederate monuments from display. Crews have begun to remove a memorial in Forest Park and working to rename Confederate Ave. to a more appropriate name. Even though the cost to remove the monument is estimated at $130,000, the…
There is a proposed bill in Georgia that will allow the locals to decide the fate of Confederate monuments. People feel that local governments should make the call on whether or not they should keep the monuments up. The monuments are currently protected. They have been subject of a fierce…
A white Georgia Republican state representative, Spencer, warned that advocates for removing the Confederate statues may “go missing in the Okefenokee." This led to Spencer and Jones, a black former colleague of his, working together on legislation that would convert the largest Confederate memorial in the country, Georgia’s Stone Mountain,…
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leave the Monuments alone.keeping them in National parks to please these racist liberal bastards would be better than destroying them like they been doing.They did pass a law making what they are doing illegal yrs ago but they are overlooking the law in fear of being called the racist name.I got one more fitting,dumbass,cowards We all know the truth you are sitting on your dead asses and letting them destroy America so Dylan roof will die happy knowing they gave hem what he wanted without question.death to liberals you have no business in politics or the media
leave the Monuments alone.keeping them in National parks to please these racist liberal bastards would be better than destroying them like they been doing.They did pass a law making what they are doing illegal yrs ago but they are overlooking the law in fear of being called the racist name.I got one more fitting,dumbass,cowards We all know the truth you are sitting on your dead asses and letting them destroy America so Dylan roof will die happy knowing they gave hem what he wanted without question.death to liberals you have no business in politics or the media