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Removing a Legacy of Hatred

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Keith Parsons
6 years ago

Thank you for your efforts!

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Turner Almond
6 years ago

Great job.

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Elliott Welton
6 years ago

Time to go

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Ralph Meekins
6 years ago

Bronze soldiers stand in silence The vestiges remain What really does it honor If what it brings pain Well written article that explains to anyone who is listening exactly how and why this statue was placed. I pray that it will be taken down peacefully.

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Gary schwab
6 years ago

Yes, please take this monument down. If you don’t know why, please read the piece by Jonathan Jones, who grew up in Shelby

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Lee Mecum
6 years ago

These people and actions should not be in places of honor. They are not honorable. They should be in a museum to be studied so we remember and learn from these hateful mistakes made throughout our history.

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Angela Hernandez
6 years ago

Time for change.

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Yassyr Ramirez
6 years ago

FREEDOM!

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Jagajivan Bernal
6 years ago

It's just makes more sense now more than ever to take it down!

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David Uren
6 years ago

These relics of hate do not deserve celebration in the public arena. Create a “Park of Hate,” or “Park of Lost Causes,” or “Confederate History of Oppression Park” and move these items with historical accounts of what they actually represent. Here’s an example of a park in Hungary that serves as a historical and educational presentation of the Communist history of the area. mementopark.hu It was an impressive exhibition area.

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Woodsherry Anderson
6 years ago

These symbols of hate have no place in my hometown. Treat our history with honesty, rip out the hate and make space for healing, justice, and love.

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Nancy Schmidt
6 years ago

No hate...love lives here!!!

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Hanadia Hudspeth
6 years ago

Tear all this iconography of slave owners and racists ideologists without souls or humanity DOWN.✊

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Teresa Seen
6 years ago

We need to recognize that these symbols of hate continue to chain us to the past.

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Sarah Glover
6 years ago

Knock it down.

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Carl Hughes
6 years ago

I’m a US Air Force Veteran. A monument to traitors to the United States of America should no longer be tolerated.

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Antonio
6 years ago

Time for change

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David Massey
6 years ago

It's long overdue!

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Judie Young Davidson
6 years ago

Thank you so very much. The Blvd name has bugged me for years.

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John Nicopoulos
6 years ago

I was born and raised in Shelby and feel that the statue is monument to Shelby’s past. Time for it to go