In various cities across the U.S. citizens are fighting over a Confederate monuments. A monument in Albertville, Alabama is in front of the city courthouse and features the Confederate flag and a solider in a gray uniform. An activist group Say Their Names Alabama put together on Wednesday according to WAFF. Daniel Sims, a Black man was out there at the protest wants the statue to stay.
“Regardless of how the next person feels, I’m not going to take my flag down. If I got anything to do with it, ain’t no monument going to come down,” Sims told WHNT. Sims a member of Captain John Rayburn Camp 452 Sons of Confederate Veterans and adpoted by a white family when he was 3-years-old.
“My whole family’s white,” Sims continued. “I went to all-white school. Grew up in an all-white neighborhood. My grandfather was white and he was the main one that fought in this war here, and he’s taught me everything I know.” Sims
Sims’ beliefs reminded social media users of Clayton Bigsby a fictional character from played by comedian Dave Chappelle on “Chappelle’s Show.” The character was a blind white supremacist who didn’t know he was Black.
“Wait until @DaveChappelle sees CLAYTON BIGSBY is an actual real live mfer,” tweeted one person.
“Someone find @DaveChappelle and crown him a God cos ain’t no way he saw this far into the future!” another person wrote.
While others were confused about how Sims’ grandfather was in the Civil War.
“Says grandpa ‘fought in the civil war.’ So, let’s see,” one person wrote. “Civil war ended in 1865. Let’s say, to be charitable, his grandpa was a drummer boy type and only 15. So, born in 1850 ish. 100 years old by 1950. So, this guy would have to be at least in his 70s to have even met grandpa.”
“Did he say that his Grandfather that taught him everything he knows fought in the civil war? Must have been about 170 years old when he was teaching him,” pointed out another.
As of now, there isn’t any official plans to remove the monument, which was placed in 1996. Sims doesn’t see why the statue needs to be taken down now.
“Why do people have a problem with it now?” he asked. “People want monuments moved now when they didn’t care just 15 or 20 years ago. I just hope things get back to normal soon.”
Unique Dunston, leader of Say Their Names Alabama, said removing the statue would show a positive sign of progress.
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