'If we don't move it, they'll take it down': Protests prompt leaders to remove Confederate monuments

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/09/confederate-monuments-protests-floyd/


The John B. Castleman statue, in Louisville's Cherokee Triangle neighborhood, is removed on Monday from the pedestal where it has stood for over 100 years. (Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal via AP)

By Teo Armus

June 9, 2020 at 7:12 a.m. EDT

A throng of protesters banged into the Confederate monument in Birmingham, Ala., covering the statue with red spray-paint and chipping away at its base with rocks. One group tried to use a thick green rope to bring down the 52-foot obelisk.

Then their mayor showed up with a megaphone.

“Allow me to finish the job for you,” Randall Woodfin told the protesters on May 31.

Two days later, he made good on his promise: The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument, first erected more than a century ago, was gone.

Regardless of what policy changes come next, the nation’s massive protests against racial injustice have already secured tangible victories in several cities. Government officials have taken down at least a dozen Confederate memorials, or pledged to do so in the coming days.

On Monday alone, work crews in Louisville and Indianapolis dismantled statues honoring members of the Confederate Army. Hours later, the University of Alabama said it would follow suit with campus plaques, and leaders in Arizona and Kentucky announced they would begin similar conversations. Early on Tuesday, another spire came down in Jacksonville.

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Good!

[Jamastiene]

1. It is about time.

Why can't they start a museum for all of that stuff? Then they can go there and gather together and wax nostalgic and all the other history revisionist crap they do. You should hear how the Civil War is talked about down here where I live. Those mean Yankees came and burned down innocent farmers' farm for no reason, blah blah blah.

Leave the rest of us out of their revisionist alternate history crap and they can "oh woe is me" in their own shiny new museum where they make shit up as they go along to keep from acknowledging the truth.

They should never have put it all up in the first place, on taxpayers' dime, not to mention all the maintenance taxpayers paid for all those years. I still resent it. The Confederacy was an enemy to the US. Fuck them. They should pay back every dime spent on those stupid statues through the years. We don't have fucking Al Qaeda and Nazi statues up all across America, wasting taxpayers' money. Why the fuck do taxpayers have to pay for their anti-American crap?

[eShirl]

2. They can call the museum History's Dustbin.