This petition was created to urge the state of North Carolina to remove a Confederate monument in my hometown of Columbia, North Carolina.

https://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/487/

It is long past time this country truly reckoned with our past, and the first step to doing that is removing all symbols and monuments that glorify our state's choice to FIGHT in defense of their ability to own people as property.

We don't need monuments in order to remember what happened in the Civil War, we live everyday with the repercussions of that war and the racist systems that were born out of it. It's time to accept the darkness in our past, and move forward instead of standing in its shadow by continuing to protect these racist monuments.  It's time for our voices to be heard in a meaningful way.  Please consider signing this petition to have this statue removed.