City council votes to remove John C. Calhoun statue from Charleston square

[Larry Moecurley]

Source: The Hill

BY JUSTINE COLEMAN - 06/23/20 10:10 PM EDT

Charleston’s city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to remove and relocate a statue of former vice president and slave advocate John C. Calhoun from a downtown square.

The approved resolution will allow the 100-foot monument in Marion Square to be moved to “an appropriate site where it will be protected and preserved.” The 13-0 vote came almost a week after Mayor John Tecklenburg (D) announced he would send the resolution to the legislature.

A special panel will determine the new destination for the statue, and a date for its removal has not been scheduled, The Associated Press reported.

“I believe that we are setting a new chapter, a more equitable chapter, in our city’s history,” Tecklenburg said before the vote, according to the AP. “We are making the right step. It’s just simply the right thing for us to do.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/504234-city-council-votes-to-remove-john-c-calhoun-statue-from-charleston

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Luvvit!

[geardaddy]

1. We renamed a lake that was named for him

It's about time his statue should be removed.

[CTyankee]

6. Yale renamed the college named for him. Replaced it with Grace Murray Hopper's name.

Here's the story: https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/11/yale-change-calhoun-college-s-name-honor-grace-murray-hopper-0

She is a woman of color who served our country so nobly and so well.

A contemporary black woman artist, Faith Ringgold, is designing the new stained glass windows for the college. I love Ringgold's work and can't wait to see what she creates!

[geardaddy]

11. Cool!

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Couldn't happen to a nicer fella.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Who would appreciate a statue of a fiend, other than another fiend?

Good god, almighty. John C. Calhoun. So glad he's gone.

[geardaddy]

12. Nice neck beard, dude.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. "Re-locate" to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Keeping it just preserves the traitor, racist past.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Took the words right outta my mouth

right when I saw your post!

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Truly where it belongs. Didn't he cane some other congressman inside the chamber? Lovely man

[Bayard]

5. Just curious...

Will statues of slave-owning presidents like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and so on, be removed? Taken off money? I mean, those guys are everywhere!

[Hestia]

10. Well, Boston is taking down a statue of Lincoln, money which as raised by freed slaves after the war

Don't understand why that statue would be taken down. Do they know who Lincoln is?

[Justice]

14. Have you seen the Boston statute?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/20/opinion/other-man-lincoln-statue/%3foutputType=amp

Sculpted by a guy that refused to use a black man as a model because he didn’t want a black man in his house. The “former slave” is kneeling - doesn’t look free. Horrible statute.

[hunter]

8. Make a 3-D laser scan of the statue for historical purposes...

... and recycle the metal.

[RussBLib]

13. So long overdue

This is pretty thrilling. So glad.