Confederate Monuments and The Legacy of Racial Inequality (Essay Sample)
This sample examines the arguments posed by de Velasco (2019) and O’Connell (2019) as it relates to how current efforts to preserve Confederate monuments correlate to de facto and de jure laws that preserve the system of inequality and discrimination towards marginalized communities in the United States.
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This Is America: Confederate Monuments and the Legacy of Racial Inequality
Introduction
Confederate monuments recently resurfaced as a sensitive issue in American debates over racism and discrimination. The opposing parties have vastly different perspectives on the monuments. Those who favor preserving the monuments believe that they symbolize heritage, not hatred. The other side claims that people must not commemorate the history linked with Confederate monuments as a community and promote racialist viewpoints. Confederate monuments serve as a unique link between the past generation.
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