Craig Fleming Current Events 2

The civil war ended over 100 years ago, but we are still having issues with it today. As a memorial of the war, statues of confederate leaders were built across the south, more than a hundred years ago. Today the debate is over whether these statues should be kept because they are apart of history or if they are symbols of racism and slavery. The whole situation exploded after a man in South Carolina killed 9 African American people to start a race war. In my opinion, statues are put up to honor great leaders, and museums are made to recognize history. Therefore these leaders don’t deserve statues because they represent something America doesn’t stand for, and should be kept in museums.


http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/us/confederate-memorial-removal-us-trnd/index.html