Confederate Monuments Argumentative Essay

According to Bustle, article written by Madhuri Sathish, “A 2016 report from the South Poverty Law Center identified 718 Confederate monuments and statues scattered across the country, but today there are possibly up to 1,000, according to USA Today, at least 60 Confederate symbols have been removed today”, but that’s not even counting the recent removals we’ve had. Today we live in a world that has multiple perspectives on how things have turned out and why. One of the most debatable topics are the removal of the confederate monuments. People think that having these monuments are a sign of slavery, racism and hatred. Others, like myself, believe the monuments are a part of history, a remembrance of those who died, and are a reminder that this
People think it’s all about how the southern states wanted to fight for slavery, but little do those people know that it had no only been about that. That southern states wanted a say in what was going to happen in their states and wanted more control over it because the federal government was tell the states how they were going to run it and the south decided they wanted to stand up for their states. As reported by Amy M. Wrobel in American Confederate Pride, one of the head generals, Robert E. Lee, said, “There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery is an institution of a moral and political evil" In 1858. In 1866 he also made a statement that "All the south ever desired was that the union, as established by our forefathers, be preserved; and that the Government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and
Fox and Thomas Leonardo Livermore in 1889 stating that approximately 620,000 died in combat, accident, starvation, and disease. Many places today have memorials to remember and honor those who lost their lives and were involved with the different wars, for example the Vietnam War, World War I and II. We have monuments up in remembrance of those who lost their lives in 9/11, we are not supporting the terrorist that attacked the twin towers, but the people involved, so why are we not allowed to have the confederate monuments to honor of all those people who gave their lives even the southerners who were fighting for something they believed in was right. Many of the Civil War soldiers were buried where ever they laid or were buried in shallow graves because there was so many of them. Not only are the monument about the history, but also a memorial for the soldiers who gave their