Statues Being Torn Down and Why It is Wrong
Throughout most of the 21st Century, statues within the United States have been defaced, torn down and destroyed as more social unrest continues to plague the nation. While some of these statues have been relocated, I see no reason for the destruction of history. Yes, we have statues of Confederate leaders who morally were never the best of people, but that will never deny the fact that racism was a lot more prevalent back in the early creation of the county.
Furthermore, it seems now any statue is a target. The Lincoln Memorial has now been defaced, along with statues of abolishists, both figures were completely for the removal of slavery and for equal rights of African Americans. I fail to see how destroying those momentums help convey the message that racism is evil. To me, it eliminates any chance one has when it comes to learning from your history.
While many can claim that history is a boring subject and has little relevance to us in the modern-day, as time goes on, we continue to disprove that idea. We see corruption, abuse of power, racism, violent protests, foreign tensions rise and fall over and over and over again. And because of this lack of concern for history, we attempt to erase the figures of any historical context. Statues of founding fathers defaced and torn down, others of Theodore Roosevelt due to his want of American Expansion, despite all the good things he and the other founders have done.
Statue removal does little to nothing to change the past. Yes, slavery did happen and it is wrong. So is the mistreatment of any human regardless of skin color. It is illogical and should not be how one is judged. But, by removing marks of history, you are only dooming yourself and countless others to repeat the cycle of history again and again.
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