As someone who didn\u2019t grow up in the United States, I have always seen Abraham Lincoln as a hero. It is shocking to learn that he actually didn\u2019t do much and that the Emancipation Proclamation wasn\u2019t all that I thought it was. Lincoln was only using the proclamation as a form to appease the Northern businessmen while not changing the power distribution of the Southern landowners. Reading that was so shocking to me because I always saw him as a man of high morality and that stood for such a respectful cause.<\/p>\n
While I sat there and watched the part one of the video, I began to reflect on the city that I live in and have come to know. When he was talking about Robert E Lee, I couldn\u2019t help but think about all the monuments dedicated to him, schools named after him, and memorials in his honor. I began to research how those monuments came to be, and I came across the Daughters of the Confederacy. That was honestly disappointing and heartbreaking. These white women raised money to promote the confederacy all over the south just to be racist. The saddest part about it is that just now, this summer did these monuments even begin to get taken down. Monument Avenue has lost most of them, but the Lee one still stands. It is 2020 and people are still holding on to racist ideas and beliefs, and there is nothing sadder than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As someone who didn\u2019t grow up in the United States, I have always seen Abraham Lincoln as a hero. It is shocking to learn that…<\/p>\n