Colonel Reb Argumentative Essay

This school was named after a hero. A man who made mistakes but tried to fix them. He was one of the first men in this city after the civil war to try and unite the black and whites together. But do you think he would be happy having the school he was named after divided because of the reminders of the war? Though he was a rebel, that does not mean we have to stay the rebels. It is past the time for a change. We need to stay up to date in our teaching methods as well as our social understanding for one another. We should not forget our past, but we do not need to live in it daily or have a reminder of it daily. Our goal as a school is to teach the students. But if something is impacting their learning ability and we do not do anything about
To many blacks he is a reminder of disregard their ancestors were treated with. Whites don’t have a reaction to him because the group of people he represents were on the whites’ side. Many black were killed, tortured and severally injured by confederate soldiers. Knowing this, these students have to go to school and see this mascot portrayed as a fun loving person. But in some cases he killed family close to these students. We as a school board need to protect the mental health of these children, white and black. If a simple mascot affects even one student negatively then our job is done correctly. This is the case here, but on a much bigger level; 400 of our student don’t want the mascot we have because the person representing our school does not represent all of the students. Many other school in this district have mascots that don’t have a significant meaning behind them. As much trouble as it would be to change the mascot, the profit businesses in our city make will go up because not just 70% of the students will buy merchandise representing the Nathan Bedford Forrest High School but 100% of the student body. Because they will be more happy to show off their pride of the school not the history connected with