The town of Fort Mill has a profoundly racist past that many ignore till this day. With the current protest and demands that have followed since the tragic death of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor the citizens of Fort Mill deserve a downtown that matches their own values...not of the racist and repugnant ones long ago. Fort Mill does not deserve to be tarnished with the constant memory of the racial injustice that sparked the very war where we killed our own men due to some’s belief that all men were not equal. Those very same men decided to memorialize such horrific injustice in our very own downtown. The statue is a reminder of a time when not all men were equal...why should we walk next to that in a time when we supposedly are? As a city we deserve better. We need these deplorable monuments removed from our city. Do we want our children growing up in a city that still can’t recognize the racial injustice of these so called monuments? Tear them down and let’s build something that represents the true values of Fort Mill with our community. These monuments do not represent the citizens of Fort Mill and it shouldn’t represent the city either.