We are making progress! We have over 4,200 signatures. If you would like to take it even further, please consider e-mailing the mayor and city commissioners: http://comission.cob.us/ Then presidential candidate Barack Obama campaigned in Brownsville in February of 2008. The city did a great job of covering up this monument. His visit took place during Charro Days Sombrero Festival - a cultural celebration. Thousands of people came to the park to enjoy the festivities. If Obama had seen the monument, I'm sure that his views towards our city leaders would have been different: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3DRgknyZhI In 2014, the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy decided to rededicate this memorial. The city had the audacity to send a few representatives to the event. Feel free to say a few things to the Brownsville Convention and Visitors Bureau here: https://www.facebook.com/brownsville.cvb/photos/a.278081602218955.87712.271591826201266/907977289229380/?type=3&comment_id=1309685812391857¬if_t=like My letter and petition to the City of Brownsville have been picked up by a few Neo-Confederate and Right Wing groups. It is quite obvious that Fox News and Donald Trump cater to these people. On a funny note, several "accidentally" signed this petition without reading it. I would like to thank them for helping us take our country into the 21st century. If you are reading this message - My ancestors are Spanish, Native American (Apache), and Middle Eastern (Arab and Jewish). Our nation's people will continue mixing. I invite you to start accepting and loving your fellow Americans. Please continue sharing this petition with your family, friends, church, synagogue, mosque, and any other civil/human rights activist group. Thank you Antonio Castillo