UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) — Memorial Day was originally set aside to remember those who died in the Civil War and while we may revere the monuments of our war dead in the north, there is a movement underway to erase the history of the Confederacy in parts of the South.
It includes purging the confederate battle flag and removing the statues of Confederate Generals and Heroes.
WMU Poli-Sci Professor John Clark says each community has to evaluate what the monument means to them.
Some still serve as a tool of repression, others a simple remembrance of history.
He says that’s why New Orleans is removing their statues and other communities like Richmond, Virginia the Capitol of the Confederacy,are adding statues of civil rights leaders and others to flesh out the historic context.
