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Just a little something I wanted to pass along.
In Florida, the Hillsborough County Commission has voted 4-2 in support of moving a Confederate statue. This vote is a complete 180 from the 4-3 vote last month where they decided not to move the statue. **Note: I thought the same thing yall probably thought when you saw the numbers, 1 of the commissioners wasn't present for the vote** The 106 year old statue which is in front a county building that contains administrative offices and a traffic court, depicts a young and "proud" Confederate soldier facing north and facing south a battered soldier in torn clothing follows him. The statue will be moved to a private family cemetery and the moving expenses will be covered by a Tampa lawyer who volunteered to cover the expenses which are expected to cost around $100,000. Brief thought: For those around this country who can't seem to grasp why moving these statues is so important, just read this quote and think about. "This doesn't reflect our values. The failure to remove this monument basically signals that we haven't escaped the past."--Florida State Representative from Tampa, Ed Narain In a lot of ways we haven't escaped or overcome the racist "past" of this country. For those who don't have the privilege of being black, please believe me, racism is alive and well. The moving of these statues is in no way shape, form, or fashion an attempt to erase history because that's impossible. What's happened has happened and there's no way to change that, however moving them is just a way to make it so that those who haven't always had it easy in this country, aka minorities, don't have to have a visual reminder of what this country was founded on. We don't need to see it because we live it every single day.
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