NAACP motion to move Lee statue sparks debate (FL)

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Posted: May 14, 2018 5:28 PM
Updated: May 14, 2018 5:33 PM EDT
By Dave Elias

FORT MYERS, Fla. -
“Can you be honorable enough to admit that you are all the way pro-white and anti-black? Because that's the way it looks,” said Lee County NAACP President James Muwakkil.

Muwakkil is calling out Fort Myers city leaders for ignoring requests to take down a memorial of Robert E Lee ...

“I think the Robert E. Lee statue should stay. It's part of history. We need to stop changing history. It is what it is. We've learned from our mistakes. Let's move on,” said Liz Clement.

The Lee memorial was placed along Monroe Street in 1966 ...

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/38187125/naacp-motion-to-move-robert-e-lee-statue-sparks-debate-rally

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1. Monroe Street between Bay and 1st, downtown Ft. Myers

In 1966 the United Daughters of the Confederacy and citizens of Fort Myers erected a monument to honor Robert E. Lee ... The monument was obstensibly erected to honor Lee's early, pre-Civil War career as an army engineer, which is why Lee County is so named. During Lee's early army career, as an army engineer, Lee toured Florida during the period when the third order of coastal defenses was being constructed ...

http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/civilwar/monuments/ft.-myers/robert-e.-lee-monument

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2. Ft. Myers Mayor: City does not own Robert E. Lee statue

Adam Pinsker
10:36 PM, Apr 2, 2018
8:11 AM, Apr 3, 2018

... the city says they didn't put this statue up and have no control over it being taken down ...

... local NAACP chapter president James Muwakkil ... is asking the Daughters of the Confederacy to work with them on moving the statute from Monroe Street to a different location. "We are reaching out across the aisle, hoping for support."

Fort Myers Mayor Randy Henderson says he's encouraging the Daughters of the Confederacy and the NAACP to work on a solution for this statute ...

https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/ft-myers-mayor-says-city-does-not-own-robert-e-lee-statue

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3. It belongs in a museum..... That caters to white supremacists and those inclined to be traitorous...

.... to the United States of America.