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struggle4progress

(118,280 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:54 AM Jun 2020

11 Jacksonville monuments, markers coming down

Florida Times-Union, Emily Bloch
Published: 6:55 PM EDT June 10, 2020
Updated: 6:55 PM EDT June 10, 2020

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — When Mayor Lenny Curry announced the removal of the bronze Confederate soldier that stood atop a 62-foot pedestal in Jacksonville’s Hemming Park for 122 years, crowds cheered. Then they asked “what else?”

“The confederate monument is gone,” Curry announced on the steps of City Hall. “And the others in this city will be removed as well. We hear your voices. We have heard your voices” ...

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/list-here-are-the-11-jacksonville-civil-war-monuments-markers-coming-down/77-c88c434e-43aa-4382-a840-be86167981f7

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11 Jacksonville monuments, markers coming down (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2020 OP
you mean...they aren't going to save them for the convention? TreadSoftly Jun 2020 #1
Chump will probably pull convention SheltieLover Jun 2020 #2
Considering his Confederacy fetish, maybe it should be a paddlewheeler misanthrope Jun 2020 #3
🤣🤣🤣🤣 SheltieLover Jun 2020 #4

TreadSoftly

(219 posts)
1. you mean...they aren't going to save them for the convention?
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:59 AM
Jun 2020

I suppose the convention participants will have to bring their own statuary.

misanthrope

(7,411 posts)
3. Considering his Confederacy fetish, maybe it should be a paddlewheeler
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 01:39 AM
Jun 2020

Maybe can be crushed under a cotton bale.

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