monuments. We have them here in Petersburg. We have the Union and we have the Confederate monuments. We do have a Monument Avenue also. And they need to be there for generations in the future because they need to know the truth. They can’t learn the truth if you do away with history. You’ll never learn. And once you do away with that type of thing, you become a slave. And if anybody knows education, if you don’t have it, you become a slave to people.”
The same people who argue that we should have the confederate monuments up to “preserve history” are also usually the ones against teaching black history
