I support moving the Confederate monument that sits directly in front of the entrance to the Gaston County Courthouse. It is well-known that these ubiquitous monuments were erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy many years after the defeat of the Confederacy, during the most egregious era of Jim Crow and the oppression of African-American citizens.We also know that the monuments were a critical component of the "Lost Cause" mythology, placed in front of courthouses or other