"CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS AND THEIR PLACE ON AMERICAN PUBLIC LAND - Bonnie Egger
Channel: Providence: A Classical Christian School
Date: 2018-04-04

In order to evaluate a statue’s place on public land, one must consider the ideological principles that the monument enshrines, the purpose for which it was first built and for which it remains, and the outcomes of the monument’s removal or staying. Put another way, we must consider what is being memorialized, why it is was and is being memorialized, and with what result. This careful, case-by-case ethical scrutiny will guard against the dangers that an extreme view of either removing all monuments or keeping all monuments produce.