A Grand Idea for the Confederate War Memorial: Replace the Rebs (TX)
STEPHEN YOUNG | APRIL 26, 2018 | 4:00AM
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has an idea to break the stalemate over what to do with City Hall's Confederate memorial: Put Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on top of the damn thing.
The Dallas City Council voted 9-6 Wednesday to put off deciding the fate of the Confederate War Memorial ...
"You take the five little people off those little stands where they are. You take off that man, you saw the other man off. You take him off. You take him off. You take him off at the top," Caraway says. "Then just include, instead of destroy, maybe <Dallas lynching victim> Allen Brooks and a plaque with his history in bronze atop one of those pedestals. Include Pancho Medrano, who has been a civil rights icon back in the day, even walking with Martin Luther King, and the history of Pancho Medrano.
"These are just examples. Include <former Dallas City Council member> Juanita Craft with the NAACP and all of the things that she's been about here in the city of Dallas. Include Roy Williams <co-plaintiff in the lawsuit that created Dallas' single-member district City Council system>, who's been a discussion point, he and Marvin <Crenshaw> on one of those pedestals. And, maybe at the very top, here's Martin Luther King" ...
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