Another Statue Debate in Mississippi

[struggle4progress]

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) ... Local residents expressed opinions to Lafayette County supervisors during a public meeting Tuesday, The Oxford Eagle reported. Supervisors did not vote on whether to remove the Confederate soldier statue that has stood since 1907 outside the county courthouse in the center of the town square in Oxford ...

Effie Burt of Oxford said her grandparents' family was run out of Lafayette County decades ago because one of her relatives refused to take orders from a white man.

"I think we should put Confederate monuments into a museum where they can be appreciated by those who feel they were not oppressed like how I feel I was with my family," Burt said. "I think we need a change and if we're going to move forward, we can't keep in the pas." ...

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2017/sep/07/another-confederate-statue-sparks-debate-mississip/

[world wide wally]

1. I think it would be appropriate to have a statue of a Confedrate soldier with a stars and bars flag

behind him stabbing a fallen Union soldier with his bayonet as the American flag lays on the ground.
After all, that IS history.