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ENGL 1302

30 January 2018

Cities and states all over the United States have been questioning their use of Confederate symbols. It has been 152 years since the end of the Civil War, but many of the same tensions are still very prevalent in today’s society. While the Union, or the North, was victorious against the Southern Confederacy, questions are still being asked, such as: Was the war really about slaves? According to numerous historical sources, and basically the current generation’s general education, the answer is yes. So, that brings us to the next question: how should we remember the Civil War, without glorifying it? According to a 2016 inventory taken by the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were still a whopping 718 confederate monuments and statues in the United States (Gunter & Kizzirre). There are a few different positions on what the statues mean, and a few monuments have since been removed, but the current issue is America’s heated debate about what to do with the remaining Confederate monuments.

In the debate about Confederate monuments, there are three main perspectives: to leave the statues alone, to destroy the statues completely, and to keep the statues - but move them to somewhere less glorifying. Conservatives, the ‘right’, tend to be the party most opposed to removing Confederate statues. Defenders of that position focus on the importance of remembering war heroes, regardless of if they won. George W. Bush’s quote, “A great nation does not hide its history, it faces its flaws and corrects them.” is used as an example from conservatives that we must keep the statues in order to ‘face’ our history (Nelson ). On the

opposite end of the spectrum, ‘leftists’ compare America keeping statues to the hypothetical idea of Germany displaying statues of Hitler. “Hitler was part of German history and culture, too. But to this day, Germany rejects him as a traitor of his people” (Kuntzman). This statement really makes the reader ask themselves: why are we honoring these war heroes, when they were defending slavery? The same article continues, “These statues are not part of our culture. They are part of a racist effort to turn a segregationist, traitorous movement into part of our culture” (Kuntzman). The most moderate and reasonable position is the last - to put the statues somewhere for historical purposes, like a museum - but to quit idolizing the m in parks and schools. The majority of people involved can agree that we should not forget history, and that is important to know what happened, to avoid repeating the past. Regarding museums, Holland Cotter makes a good point: “… though to be truly useful schools, [museums] must be willing to identify themselves as historical halls of shame as well as halls of fame... where [the statues] can be presented as the propaganda they are” (Cotter). This reasonable compromise between the two poles follows that logic, while also limiting the ‘glory’ value the statues receive. As the old saying states, “you can’t change history, but you can learn from it .”

Note from Instructor: Notice how the student gives 3 perspectives that are all different from each other (on different sides of the tug-of-war rope). She states each perspective and then gives a quote that supports that perspective. She is just summarizing other people’s ideas rather than arguing for a particular side. The They Say section should just be a summary of what other people say. You will get to give your own argument in the I Say section.

Works Cited

Cotter, Holland. “We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments.” The New York Times, 20 Aug. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/arts/design/we-need-to-move-not-destroy-confederate-monuments.html.

Dubenko, Anna. “Right and Left on Removal of Confederate Statues.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 18 Aug. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/right-and-left-on-removal-of-confederate-statues.html.

Gunter, Booth, and Jamie Kizzirre. “Who's Heritage? Public Symbols of the

Confederacy.” Southern Poverty Law Center, www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_splc.pdf

Kuntzman, Gersh. “U.S. should see Confederate leaders the way Germans see Hitler.” NY

Daily News, 17 Aug. 2017, www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/u-s-confederate-leaders-germans-hitler-article-1.3420013.

Nelson, Sophia A. “Opinion: Confederate monuments should stay and here's why.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 1 June 2017, www.nbcnews.com/think/news/opinion-why-i-feel-confederate-monuments-should-stay-ncna767221.