The first article we found on Lexis Nexis refers to how Obama used his powers as president to protect as many “monuments” as possible. In Obama’s last few months of presidency he used the antiquities act to protect as much land as possible. He claimed up to 550 million acres of land in the U.S. This reckless land grab from Obama caused a lot of problems because so much land was taken up without any real criteria. Meaning that many monuments became monuments because of Obama’s last minute land grab. Not because they actually “qualify” to become monuments.

In the second article that we found with out own search, was the New York Post article about De Blasio’s attempt at setting up a monument review. De Blasio is trying to get rid of some monuments because of the push from liberals to remove old statues that represent bad times in history. However, the monument review is meeting a lot of resistance from conservatives who want the monuments to stay. De Blasio came up with the idea of taking down some selected monuments with his board of officials that will review each monument. He wants to get rid of the statues with his criteria stating some monuments could be offensive towards specific groups of people, however there are a lot of resistances against removing the statues from conservatives. There are people who’s opposed of his actions and refuse to came up to an agreement. The argument turned into a debate because there is equal resistance and force from both sides.

Group Members: Tiffany, Kyle, Donald

Project #2, Part 2