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News Flash: It's Racism Not Heritage

          So this may seem slightly late, but until every single Confederate statue is taken down this post will be relevant. The protests that started following the murder of George Floyd and are part of a fight that started hundreds of years ago saw a push to finally remove Confederate statues in America. This is only one part of the BLM matter movement and the fight for equality and justice, a fight that shouldn't even have to exist. But I wanted to take a moment and focus on these statues that some people believe are nothing more than monuments with the purpose of idealizing history as a concept.            Let's start broad here. One of the foremost arguments against taking down these statues of figures such as Andrew Jackson and Robert E. Lee is that by doing so we will be erasing history. Without monuments to these figures, history will be forgotten. I don't know any other way to put this, but have you heard of a book? Like I can assure all of you that never once hav