Pete Moye’
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This country has very few landmark staples remaining anymore. For some reason, all of the vitally important pieces of history are becoming just that, history. Now, there is talk about taking down the “Hollywood” sign.

Point blank, this whole discussion is all about money. It is a situation where greedy, extremely wealthy people see an opportunity to add several zeros to their ridiculously wealthy bank accounts.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that money hungry, greed infested individuals want to remove the sign because they remove anything that they believe they can make a profit off of.

What is wrong with the world? People will sell anything if the price is right.

But why even consider getting rid of a piece of history? The Hollywood sign has been standing for longer than the people who are making decisions on its fate have been alive.

This is another example of how we in this country treat the elder things and people in our lives. People are saying, “When it gets too old, or too inconvenient, sell it, get rid of it or put it in a nursing home where all great landmarks go when people tire of them.”

It wouldn’t be a shock at all if this was some type of ploy to attempt to start to get out of this financial hole that our government has put us in, but taking down a piece of history for any reason, especially for profit is just wrong.

All they will do is build those homes on the land, then hike up the price significantly higher than it already was with the point to potential buyers that, “this is the land where the Hollywood sign was.”

Even with the average age of Cerritos College students, you would be hard-pressed to find one of them that does not know what the Hollywood sign is.

Even for those people that don’t live in Southern California, they have in some way been positively impacted by the sign.

Some of us had our first kiss to a movie that contained the sign while some of us recall the sign being used in some capacity as the place where we got engaged to our spouse.

A word of advice for those who wish to ruin a part of history. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” It is not your job, nor responsibility to remove something that millions of people have grown up with. It is just as much a part of our families as your nonsensical mindsets are to your family.

Cerritos College students, your voice is valid and powerful. Use it. If we don’t speak up about the wrongs that we see occurring around us, we have no right to complain when we see wrongs happening within our campus.