Arkansas citizens demand the removal of the confederate monument on lake Village's lakefront because The removals are driven by the belief that the monuments glorify white supremacy and memorialize a treasonous government whose founding principle was the perpetuation and expansion of slavery. The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877–1964).Supporters of removing the statues feel the existence of the monuments in public spaces glorifies the country’s racist history, and supports systems of white supremacy. Opponents feel that the monuments honor their cultural history and do not understand that the history they want to glorify is history that lynched and murdered thousands of African-American people right in the town of Lake Village Arkansas.