We ask you to not send a wreath or some other commemorative token to the Arlington Confederate Monument during your administration or after.
The Arlington Confederate Monument is a denial of the wrong committed against African Americans by slave owners, Confederates, and neo-Confederates, through the monument’s denial of slavery as the cause of secession and its holding up of Confederates as heroes. This implies that the humanity of Africans and African Americans is of no significance.
This letter was written by Edward Sebesta and James Loewen and signed by the scholars listed below.
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