From "Monuments to Hate" Could you help explain and connect to our culture? How might it be useful to American culture to remove confederate statues?

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Monuments to Hate

We do not sit outside of the world in which we live. The current fight over the fate of Confederate monuments in US life is a direct struggle that calls for direct action by us all against racism. Are symbols of the Old South memorials? Living museums of interactive racism, filled with exhibits of monuments to hate. Whether etched in stone or ingrained in knots, placards mark the spots the present never forgot. Historical reenactments of unspeakable acts, performed again and again to bring the Civil War back, to unearth shallow graves that cover a hate half asleep, while descendants of the Lost Cause replay war and weep, raising and praising their tattered star-crossed battle flag. Ole Dixie, the flag that bore Shakespeares image of doom, now marks a tomb of the unfinished work of our nation. Can we be healed by a hymn? Freed by a declaration? Made whole by a mouth full of air? We hold these truths these truths, to be self-evident, that all, not some, are equal. Freedom forms at the mouth, the source of the longest river, from a Negro Spiritual, Aint Gonna Study War No More, flowing through Hemingways A Farewell to Arms, and beyond. The cost of freedom, though immeasurable, is never paid in full, never blood alone, but something far more precious, even divine. Ironically, they were right to say, The South will rise again but what they failed to see was that it would not do so as Phoenix, from the ashes, reminding us of war and devastation, on all sides. No, it rose like Lazarus, come back from the dead, transformed, returning with a glorified body and with deliberate movement. It was, after all, this movement, a Southern movement, in the form of the Civil Rights that once moved a people. Now, once more it moves a nation, though not without pain or pressure, closer to equality, closer to each other, closer to a more perfect union. Having risen, and raised us all, time and again, let us never fall to hatred.