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Omaha Steve

(99,071 posts)
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 06:43 PM Jun 2020

Rocky Mount approves removal of Confederate monument

Source: AP

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina city of Rocky Mount has approved the removal of a Confederate statue that has stood for more than a century.

CBS 17 reports that the Rocky Mount City Council approved the removal on Monday night. The statue has stood at the edge of a park since 1917.

The vote follows several days of protests in North Carolina and across the country against racism and police brutality. The demonstrations were sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.

Since Floyd’s death, Virginia’s governor has ordered the removal of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the city of Richmond. The city’s mayor has also announced plans to remove other Confederate monuments from the city.



Read more: https://apnews.com/ac054b61dc517a831049c97e5a152b5c

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Rocky Mount approves removal of Confederate monument (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2020 OP
So when does this thing get removed? roamer65 Jun 2020 #1
I was just thinking that lapfog_1 Jun 2020 #3
Good Sherman A1 Jun 2020 #2
I know Rocky Mount. This is a major shift indeed. Ford_Prefect Jun 2020 #4
What?!? angrychair Jun 2020 #5

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
3. I was just thinking that
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:11 PM
Jun 2020

until they dynamite that ugly pile of traitorous rock, we will never finally "kill the rebellion"

Ford_Prefect

(7,824 posts)
4. I know Rocky Mount. This is a major shift indeed.
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:19 PM
Jun 2020

Not everyone in NC is willing to let go of the Confederate past even if they acknowledge how bad things are now. That the town council went public on this now is a serious change.

angrychair

(8,593 posts)
5. What?!?
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 07:57 PM
Jun 2020

What would the USS Stennis be without its Confederate flag? Or the Vinson?

Hard to believe you mean it when you named ships after racist segregationists.

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