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Maintain our rights to History

Maintain our rights to History

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Started by Teresa Head 6 years, 3 months ago
On the petition, wanting to remove the Confederate statue in uptown Shelby, NC.I'm wanting to get a petition to have it to be allowed to stay in it's home, since 1906.People ,open your eyes, this is a part of our history.Why should it be taken away? How can a statue or a flag hurt anyone? Yes, what happened to George Floyd was unconscionable,but things are getting out of hand.i cannot racist, I gave black friends, and always have.I have black neighbors. I have friends and family in biracial relationships.It is part of my life, as a child, back in the old days, when people still went to pay their Bill's, my mama, use to drive us up to the court square and park to go pay her bills. She would leave my sister's and I in the car, telling us, we better behave, because that soldier was watching us.We knew it was just a statue, but it was part of our life.Let history, remind history ,it only becomes something bad, if we let our mind take us there.

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Gary Bell
6 years ago Featured

This statue has been there over 100 years. My grandfather used to sit by it back in the day and nobody ever had a problem with it until now. Stop trying to erase everything.

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Brenda Gallagher
6 years ago Featured

LEAVE IT ALONE. Those people complaining have nothing better to do. It is just a piece of stone and it isnt hurting a soul.

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Donnie Beason
6 years ago Featured

Why don’t people learn the real meaning of this? The war was fought over taxes not slavery, why is this town cowering down?

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Betty Peeler
6 years ago Featured

It's amazing to me that the statue has stood in its place since 1906 and now it's offensive? It's part of history. Leave it be!

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Anonymous
6 years ago Featured

Keep the statue. It is history and was there during the 1970’s marches around the courthouse.

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Debra Mellon
6 years ago Featured

I think taking the Confederate Monuments down has gotten out of hand. This is part of our History and I don't think it's fair taking them down just because some people don't like them because they think it's about SLAVERY..... The Civil War wasn't all about SLAVERY.... Maybe it's time we started taking down OBAMA STATUES AND OTHERS BECAUSE OBAMA IS A TRAITOR AND A TERRORIST.

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Billy A
6 years ago

Save the history

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Libby C
6 years ago

Let it be!! Not hurting ANYONE