The Modern Removal of the Confederacy.

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The United States southern Confederacy movement, southern states, and war soldiers eventually lost the Civil War to the North in 1865.

In current times, the Confederacy is still losing.

What's happening? Well, the Confederate resembling historical and prominent physical statues, streets and school names are being heavily questioned, yanked down, physically removed, and entirely renamed. It's happening often, powerfully and with consistency. These physically painful earthly reminders of the Confederacy are being attacked by the opposing human group masses. Governments are meticulously changing street and school names. Some people consider it an attempted re-write of American History. I consider it an intelligent desire to simply highlight more honorable and inspiring figures from America's historical past.

In personal evidence of proof example, early this year I worked as the listing agent for a property owner and real estate client, who owned a 1/3 acre lot and starter 2 bedroom pier and beam home in the Brentwood neighborhood of North Central Austin. The property address while I was the listing agent, was legally titled Jeff Davis Avenue. Post successful sale and closing, I re-visited the Brentwood area and exact street months later to curiously check out what the new owners had done with the property. To my surprise, my former listing was now located on William Holland Drive, with a newly placed green street signage and everything. In a related street name change example, in liberal Austin, Texas, today's Azie Morton Road in the Barton Hills neighborhood was formerly known as Robert E. Lee Boulevard. Like Bob Dylan sang, "the times, they are a changing."

Just recently, the student body at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, gang rushed a Confederate statue, dubbed "Silent Sam." The youth movement of the United States is determined to remove the ghosts of racism past, and intelligently move forward towards the future. The youths, and I too, wish for our country to look forward and become morally improved. I am assuming from these Tar Heel student youth's demonstrative actions, that they are fed up and disgusted with roaming their University A-List Level campus, still stenched with slavery statue relics. It's understandable, I get it. In addition, my alma mater, the University of Texas has evidently removed their confederate campus statues too. The Confederate Statue removal occurrence has become commonplace nationwide.

Judging from the news and actions in current times, it appears in the future, the only place the Confederacy will still live on will be in History Books. That's it. It's over. The outward street names, school names, and statues with Confederate names will be GONE. Good riddance and goodbye!

I understand. I get these forward-moving changes. I'd consider myself socially progressive and fiscally conservative.

The only reason I can think of to keep the physical lingering of the Confederacy is for the memorabilia to remain a prominent reminder within society to NOT repeat the past. They say in history, the past is doomed to repeat itself. This may be true. If the Confederate Statues were to remain upstanding, they would be a painful and obvious deterrence to our modern and future society. The statues' physical presence would re-enforce humanity to wise up, become better and to grant all humans decency and individual rights. How do you feel about this modern slaying of the Confederacy's History?

The past and history can be quite painful for some segments of society. People spend years in therapy to overcome abuse as children, the death of parental figures, bullying, depression, and much more. So again, I can see why the daily physical reminder of a Confederate General Lee or President Jefferson Davis statue would be emotionally and physically painful to righteous American citizens, African Americans, and humanity in general. Imagine having to sit across from a former abuser in your work cubicle?

I am all for respecting your elders. Respect your parents. Respect your grandma. Love your siblings. Love your spouse. You don't need to adore people who lashed humans with whips, conducted lynchings, and sexually ravaged women with mistreatment during the slavery era. Slavery for the Confederacy was an economic advantage to Southern states providing free labor. I have still yet to view the 3 time Oscar award winning and 2013 Motion Picture of the year, "12 Years a Slave," directed by Steve McQueen. One of my movie buff friends told me he saw it, and it was gruesome. I believed him.

Is the modern removal of the Confederacy an attempt at Revisionist History? I say no. There is no doubt the Confederacy existed and lost the Civil War. Human slavery in the United States happened, and the practice of slavery should never occur again.

Our current society is simply finished with the ugly reminders. Like a freshly divorced former couple now free to roam, we as a society are ready to MOVE-ON with life.