Statues and Monuments removed or defaced during the BLM Movement By Ethan V.

Statues and Monuments removed or defaced                         during the BLM Movement    7-9-20

By Ethan V.

    During the Black Lives Matter movement, which has heated up again recently due to the death of George Floyd, some statues and monuments have been the center of a controversy. The controversy is about cities honoring racist people through statues and monuments, like Robert E. Lee who fought for the Confederate states of America during the American Civil war. Multiple Robert E. Lee statues have been taken down and one high school was renamed after a track runner at the school said she wouldn't represent her school and have Robert E. Lee on her shirt. 

    Another statue that was taken down was a Frederick Douglass statue. This made no sense to me when I first read about it because Frederick Douglass was a freed slave and also a abolitionist. So why was his statue one of the ones taken down? It was taken down because white supremacists were seeking revenge for many confederate statues being torn down by Black Lives Matter protesters.                         

 

                                                                                                                                                      

    I was really surprised at how many statues have been torn down during the BLM movement so far. Here is the list:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monuments_and_memorials_removed_during_the_George_Floyd_protests

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