Fighting for the Removal of Confederate Statues

Confederate statues are ridiculous and need to go. Look below for an Email Template to fill out and send to your local representatives.

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Email Template to Local Reps Demanding the Removal of Confederate Statues

Dear (Put the Name of Your Senator/Congressman/Congresswoman Here), 

My name is (Put Your Name Here) and I am from (Put Your Town/City/County/State Here). I am sending this email because I believe that the Confederate statue in our (Put Town/City/County/State Here) needs to be removed. The statue I am speaking of is located at (Put the Exact Address/Location if Possible Here). I believe that having a Confederate statue is not okay, and gives people the wrong impression of our (Put Town/City/County/State Here). We, as a community, are better than this.

Confederate statues represent something that should not be glorified in our (Put Town/City/State/County Here), as our (Put Town/City/County/State Here) should be able to recognize this and act accordingly. Confederate statues glorify those that rebelled against our country because they could not get what they wanted. I do not believe that we should glorify people as American heroes if they worked so hard to not be considered Americans. Glorifying these people makes us as a community look bad. 

This statue is also harmful to the people of color that live in our (Put City/State/Town/County Here). Although many claim that the Civil War was about state’s rights, that is not the case. The Civil War was fought about the ability to continue the practice of slavery in the south. Do you think that it is easy for people of color to see a statue on a daily basis of a person that fought in a war just to ensure they didn’t gain basic human rights? That is a feeling that no one should have to experience. 

Not only is this statue is harmful to the people of our community, but it also makes our community look bad, and glorifies actions that should not be celebrated. Actions should be taken to remove this statue as soon as possible. 

Thank you for your time (Put the Name of the Senator/Congressman/Congresswoman Here),

(Put Your Name Here)

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From Scott Bateman.

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But you gotta be able to read…

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Republicans: The confederacy is an important part of our history that should not be forgotten.

Liberals: Confederate statues are a celebration of traitors who literally died to prevent black people from being recognized as full, equal human beings. We do think that those events should never be forgotten and we need thorough education about our past.

Republicans: Oh yea, about that. We want to censor English classrooms, history classrooms, and science classrooms. Specifically you have to stop teaching so much about slavery, our genocide of the Native Americans, our imperialism around the world, and seriously down play the systemic racism and oppression into our recent history. You should purposefully only teach parts of history that are positive and inspire patriotism.

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What, Really, Is A Monument?

Monuments play a different cultural role than do other kinds of artworks: To let a monument stand, or to take it down, is to take a political stand on its subject matter, says blogger Alva Noë.

“First, we must own up to the fact that the decision to let a monument stand — no less than the decision to take it down — is to take a stand on the subject matter of the monument. If you believe, as I do, that Robert E. Lee was a friend of slavery and an enemy of the United States of America, then the case for removing monuments to him is a strong one.

“Second, there is no reason to fear that tearing down such monuments will, or could, cause us to forget. The monuments are not and never have been relics of those bygone days. They carry no information about the past they are used to symbolize, only about our own reverential attitude to that past. And that’s a reverential attitude it’s time to change, in this case.”

— Philosopher Alva Noë for NPR

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Protests continue across the country in the wake of Charlottesville

Protests in reaction to Saturday’s deadly white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, continued Monday night as demonstrators from New York City to Utah came out to condemn the hatred.

In New York City, protesters lined the streets outside Trump Tower to welcome Trump, holding signs denouncing white supremacy and chanting “New York hates you” and “Shame shame shame.”

In Durham, North Carolina, Monday evening, protesters who gathered to speak about Saturday’s violence in Charlottesville surrounded a nearby Confederate statue, tying a rope around it and pulling it to the ground, the News & Observer reported. Read more (8/15/17)

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John Oliver unveils possible replacements for Confederate statues

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Email Template to Local Reps Demanding the Removal of Confederate Statues

Dear (Put the Name of Your Senator/Congressman/Congresswoman Here), 

My name is (Put Your Name Here) and I am from (Put Your Town/City/County/State Here). I am sending this email because I believe that the Confederate statue in our (Put Town/City/County/State Here) needs to be removed. The statue I am speaking of is located at (Put the Exact Address/Location if Possible Here). I believe that having a Confederate statue is not okay, and gives people the wrong impression of our (Put Town/City/County/State Here). We, as a community, are better than this.

Confederate statues represent something that should not be glorified in our (Put Town/City/State/County Here), as our (Put Town/City/County/State Here) should be able to recognize this and act accordingly. Confederate statues glorify those that rebelled against our country because they could not get what they wanted. I do not believe that we should glorify people as American heroes if they worked so hard to not be considered Americans. Glorifying these people makes us as a community look bad. 

This statue is also harmful to the people of color that live in our (Put City/State/Town/County Here). Although many claim that the Civil War was about state’s rights, that is not the case. The Civil War was fought about the ability to continue the practice of slavery in the south. Do you think that it is easy for people of color to see a statue on a daily basis of a person that fought in a war just to ensure they didn’t gain basic human rights? That is a feeling that no one should have to experience. 

Not only is this statue is harmful to the people of our community, but it also makes our community look bad, and glorifies actions that should not be celebrated. Actions should be taken to remove this statue as soon as possible. 

Thank you for your time (Put the Name of the Senator/Congressman/Congresswoman Here),

(Put Your Name Here)

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Follow Our Twitter

https://twitter.com/FightingStatues