Confederate Controversy

Dr. Blair
“Confederate Controversy”
Instructor’s Narrative: As you matriculate within the discipline of history, you must be mindful of this fact: History is not a “neat” and “linear” dynamic, but rather it is complex and “fluid” (it flows in different directions).This complexity is most applicable to the historical debate surrounding the status of Confederate monuments within the twenty-first century. This Confederate debate gained more traction in recent years due to a number of highly publicized and racialized tragedies ( such as G. Floyd, B. Taylor, and “Charlottesville” just to name a few).In the wake of those racially-based tragedies, various national human rights organizations, lobbied for a widespread eradication of racism in any form(whether “human” or “symbolic”).To this end, Confederate monuments, whose longstanding association with White supremacy, became targets for eradication(at least from public outdoor spaces).Hence, this particular “rally” is the point of your assignment.

WATCH: https://youtu.be/ZEiJiSgoUX8 and https://youtu.be/rDZesvFVOMQ

Assignment: After watching the clips related to the “Confederate Controversy”, Write AT LEAST A SIX SENTENCE-PARAGRAPH(PLEASE DO NOT WRITE “NUMBERED ANSWERS”BUT RATHER WRITE WITHIN AN ESSAY-STYLE PARAGRAPH) in which you address the following:
1. What were TWO POINTS made from one or both clips which stood out to you? EXPLAIN why you cited those points.
2. How would you address someone who states: “The removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces is like erasing history”?
3. In YOUR OPINION, do Confederate monuments have historical value? EXPLAIN.
4. In YOUR OPINION, do you think that there is an appropriate place to display Confederate monuments? EXPLAIN. If your answer is “yes”, then where?

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