Texas A&M QB Kellen Mond wants controversial campus statue removed

Kellen Mond wants a controversial statue removed from the Texas A&M campus.

Texas A&M football quarterback Kellen Mond isn’t in the news for his play.

In fact, it’s for something we can get behind, regardless of if you root for the Texas A&M Aggies on college football Saturdays or not. There is great debate surrounding the Lawrence “Sul” Ross statue on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. While Ross was a former Texas governor and university president, he fought for the Confederacy and “killed and disenfranchised blacks.”

The statue has been vandalized with it having “racist”, “BLM” and “ACAB” spray-painted on it, as well as a clown wig placed on the head of the statue. There have been people protesting that the statue be removed and there have been people protesting that protest, citing the statue should stay erected. The whole thing is a mess and here is what Mond had to say about the whole thing.

In his quote tweet, Mond would write on what the “Sully Statue” represents. “If one side is protesting racism, the other side is counter protesting racism. Prairie View A&M was created to obtain federal funds from the second Morrill Act (1890). Instead of integrating the TAMU campus, PVAMU was created. He killed and disenfranchised blacks.”

Kellen Mond wants to see the Sully Statue removed from Texas A&M campus.

While Ross may have been a huge reason Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M University exist today, his past as a racist has clearly been defined. During the Civil War, Union soldiers accused him “of killing black soldiers who were captured in battle in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and threatening to use “no quarter” against commanders who fought alongside black soldiers against him.”

While Texas A&M president Michael Young defended the statue in 2017 and Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp wrote a letter to the editor to the school newspaper in 2018, citing the statue should never be removed, it seems as though the university has had a change of heart of late in its statement released over the weekend.

“Anti-Black laws, poll taxes and voter intimidation, and violent attacks against people of color were the primary way that white southerners consolidated their power in the post-Reconstruction era.”

“It is unequivocally true that Ross agreed with, supported, and defended these policies until his death, even as he carried out what might be considered isolated acts of charity towards some communities of color.”

While Mond is expected to have a big year for Texas A&M football, as the Aggies look to push the Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC West standings, some things are more important. If the star quarterback of the football team has a clear and defined problem with the statue because it invokes racism, then maybe it’s time for Texas A&M to reevaluate who it glorifies forever.

Mond is firmly on the side of seeing the “Sully Statue” removed from Texas A&M’s campus.

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