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| 1 | Jason C. Waite | I and others are prepared with direct action to take the monument down! |
| 2 | Rachel Purser | |
| 3 | Amy Eck | Racism sucks |
| 4 | jonny carroll | I don't know about tearing down a historic monument, even if history is racist. what about building a bigger monument on the north end, or west or east. Maybe right behind the current one. A desegregation monument, or a monument of equality and union. Instead of trying to erase what we were, celebrate what we've become. |
| 5 | Dan Burnam | When ever addressing the issue of use of the confederate flag , monuments honoring confederate soldiers, or naming a public building after Robert E. Lee, comes up: I heare the same argument. “We do not want to change history”. We are not attempting to change history. I want everyone to remember lest we forget how far the struggle has come. What I do want to see changed is the way we honor and pay tribute to the confederacy. Some still argue the civil war was over states rights. That is nothing more than a buzz word for supporting slavery. Why would we honor those that attempted to destroy this nation through war and defend the most vial of all institutions. We do not want to change history but we would not pay homage to a Nazi Swastika. It represents cruelty and ethnic cleansing. Well so does the confederate flag and a statue honoring those that set out to tear apart this nation for the sake of one race enslaving another. Yes I want us to remember, but we should not honor. |
| 6 | John Warren | |
| 7 | Project Pat | Yah maing. fuck dat monument. Da hypocrazy of da south need to be unrecognized |
| 8 | Michael Jackson | I'm white so i don't care |
| 9 | charlene burnam | |
| 10 | Sammie Haren | |
| 11 | LaKecia Smith | |
| 12 | Jason C. Waite | Just thought you guys would like to read what it says on the monument. |
| 13 | LuAnn | |
| 14 | Anonymous | It will be a struggle to overcome the rednecks.
Maybe the Aryan Nation or the KKK will expose themselves here from out of the closet. |
| 15 | rick mcneill | Honor the sacrifice of the people not the crimes of the government. |
| 16 | Kathleen West | |
| 17 | american | your really quite an ignorant piece of work,the monument honors the sons and daughters who fought for their beliefs as they pertained to states rights,they paid for those beliefs with their blood, you can't view it out of context and talk your shit. please go save a whale or something you imbecile. |
| 18 | shaun | This should have been removed long ago and i am amazed that it still stands! |
| 19 | Jennifer Calderon | |
| 20 | Anonymous | |
| 21 | Leonel Valdes | Might as well put up some statues of a white man beating an African down...it will only add to the monument and its history. |
| 22 | Elvia Rodriguez | The City of Denton really needs to take this down, with two growing universities with very diversed student population; the city really needs to consider how unattractive this is current Denton residents as well as professional Alumni from both Univerisities in which their contributions to their Alma Maters will only help bring more development & progress to the City of Denton! From a buisness stands point, the City of Denton should replace it with a more friendlier monument that represents the unity of Denton's vast diversed population to better represent our changing society. By holding on to this "monument" (if you would call it that) the Denton is looking to be soon defined by the media as a racist town........I wonder what would happen if a slient protest with Texas & National media attention came to be at this given site on Black Heritage Month 2008.....I would think this would place more pressure on the Denton to then find something to repalce that "monument" with! Maybe that is all the City of Denton really needs a little media attention? |
| 23 | Claudio Rodriguez | |
| 24 | Alejandro de la Torre | |
| 25 | C Ware | |
| 26 | TorrieJones | |
| 27 | Anonymous | |
| 28 | leeann andrews | |
| 29 | Suzy Echols | I'm disgusted to see that someone would be so ignorant as to make something like this. |
| 30 | Matt Cochran | |
| 31 | Derrick GranT | WELL IM REALLY NOT UP FOR THE RACIST STUFF SO WHY NOT LETS TAKE CARE OF IT!!....... |
| 32 | Anonymous | |
| 33 | Anonymous | |
| 34 | Jonny Carroll | What if you petition for a relocation of the monument? Destruction of art because it honors people who had different beliefs than you is much more radical than the confederacy was. Who has the right to call the monument "racist", or even the confederacy racist. Throughout history monuments and art have been destroyed because of selfishness and denial.. and I don't want to see it happen in my home town. Listen, I hate the morons who fly confederate flags from the back of their ford F-350's just as much as the rest of you guys, but this monument is not causing racism or violence in our children. I've walked under that thing several times and had no idea what it "honored racism". If it really is a big deal, then my vote in on relocation, put it inside the museum, hell in the basement of the courthouse, but certainly don't destroy, that's just f-ed up. |
| 35 | Jeannie Markarian | Thank you for confronting this racist " monument" 1 I have hated it since I moved to the city a few years ago. Alway when visitors come, I am ashamed to take them to the square. Where is the monument to those who resisted and resist racism , classism and war/occupation? take it down and put another one up! ANOTHER SOUTH IS POSSIBLE!!! |
| 36 | William T Sherman | Yes!...Yes!...Destroy the Monument!...And then Burn the town of Denton!...And Kill all the Southern Scum!...Every Man, Woman and Child! |
| 37 | Melissa Garner | What has happened to the progress that has been made since the early 60's? People have fought and died to abolish this antiquated backwards bigoted thought and deed. If you must erect a monument, put up a statue of Rev. M. L. King. That's worthy of our tax expenditure. |
| 38 | aron | |
| 39 | Shannon | |
| 40 | Anonymous | It is very disappointing especially in this day and age to have such an icon prominently displayed. Slavery was a shameful chapter in this country's history that is still very painful for many African-Americans. |
| 41 | Anonymous | RIDICULOUS PETITION
Why should Aron Duhon who is not really from DENTON, TX demand that the Confederate Monument be removed from the square? Why do you not find out how those of us who have lived here feel about the statue and accept that it is part of our history?
Those young Texans who died for the Confederacy were not slave holders. They were idealist pretty much like Aron Duhon. Most of them were poor and were looking for adventure in what they saw in The Civil War.
Many a young man through history has done the same thing when there was war. They do not realize the horrors of war until they are faced with them. To these young men from our county they fought to protect what they felt was being threatend by the Industrial North. They fought to protect a way a life that they new best. Unfortunately this way of life included slavery.
However, we should not damn the men from our county because they fought on the side of slavery. We should show them respect and honor for the bravery they showed in standing up for what they saw as wrongs being commited by the North. These boys are pretty much like Aron Duhon. They were idealistic and felt very strongly that they were correct in how they thought.
The Confederate boys paid the ultimate price for what they felt was right. This is what we should honor. The horrible sacrifice they made. I believe for this reason the Condeferate Monument should stay. Not to remind people of slavery but to remind people that war is an awful thing and usually young men fight and die for causes that they might not support.
How many boys lost their lives in Viet Nam? How many have lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq? Do we consider their sacrifices as wasted and immoral for what they were ORDERED to do? Why should a Confederate soldier be treated any differently? They were just boys following orders from those who made the plans.
I don't think Aron Duhon truly understands what soldiers do. Soldiers do not fight for ideals or beliefs once the bullets actually start flying. Soldiers ultimately fight for each other. The boys from this county were usually fighting as a unit. They all knew each other from growing up together in Denton county. These soldiers I doubt were thinking about slavery when they were shooting. They were probably thinking about protecting their neighbor, cousin or brother who was next to them.
This is what I see when I look at the monument on the square. I think about the horrors of war and the sacrifices that young men (and now young women) are asked to do.
Will Aron Duhon want to remove the World War II monument that also stands in the square as well? As Americans we did some pretty horrible things in that war as well. We dropped nuclear weapons on Japan, we fire bombed German cities. Does that make all the people who served during that war killers? I think not.
Does Aron Duhon want to erase all monuments that he finds offensive? Would that not be called censorship?
Rod P. |
| 42 | Southern Born | Get a life! |
| 43 | yeradork athome | revisionist history .... The best way to repeat the past is to wipe out the memory of it. |
| 44 | Jesse Jeffers | |
| 45 | Drew | NOT IN SUPPORT. This petition is petty. It is a monument get over it. Its stands for the blood paid fighting for what was believed. I think it is an honor to have the statue stand in my town. Someone said build a bigger statue on the North side. Now that is a good idea. An effective use of your time. Stop worrying about destroying history and be proactive in creating a better future. Our country as a whole would progress even more if you get over the past. You aren't from Denton are you? |
| 46 | gary green | you need to read the first line of your statement above , for the great lincoln used force against the south first. also you need to google h. k. egerton you will find him very interesting. |
| 47 | Cecil | The Confederate Monument in Denton, Texas:
I say keep it there for ever,nothing wrong with it! |
| 48 | Anika S | Why hasn't this already been taken down? This monument is not about history, it's about denton's racist and violent pride. If they want history, try opening up a book and reading about the oppression whites have placed upon other races. I moved to denton a year ago, and was suprised to know that some of the white students that attend Texas Woman's University have claimed to never have seen black people before coming here. It is truly sad that not only have they been ignorant to the oppression of minorities, but now this is there example of "pride" in history towards "colored's" |
| 49 | Tim | If you hate the white south, their traditions and their history, what are you doing here? Isn't it true, you low-lives of all stripes can't make a civilization and standard of living that approaches ours so you flock to ours to feed off us. Besides, if you were serious about racism, you'd be protesting your governments support of the mass-murdering, nuclear-armed, racist-Apartheid Israel. |
| 50 | fuck off | |