Madhuri Sathish states, “A 2016 report from the Southern Poverty Law Center identified 718 Confederate monuments and statues scattered across the country — and not all of them are found in Southern states.” A substantial number of people are protesting and arguing over whether or not we should keep the Confederate monuments or destroy them. The monuments have distinguished themselves as a huge part of our history, and the monuments demonstrate the fact that our country has not been ever been perfect. If we destroy our Confederate monuments, then we will not be able to remember all the great things that come from our history; preserving all parts of our past and our history is crucial to remaining strong as a nation.
The argument for why we should remove the Confederate monuments has many valid reasons. Americans should not praise the South because they seceded from the country and started a civil war, these leaders could be considered traitors against the U.S. Constitution, because they advocating the state's right to own slaves. Bob Cesca in his article states, “Consequently, it became publicly acceptable — normalized, as we say these days — to have monuments to traitors against the …show more content…
The veterans of the South cemeteries were not cared for because they betrayed the constitution, but all veterans graves should be taken care of because they fought for our country and deserve to be cared for. John Daniel Davidson states “It’s a mistake not because there was anything noble about the Confederacy or its raison d’être, which was slavery, but because there is something noble—and, for a free people, necessary—about preserving our history so we can understand who we are and how we should live.” He states that we need to know our past, so that we can live in the future without the same mistakes we made a century and half