Professor’s Op-Ed Is Final Blow for Confederate Statue (KY)
BY: RICHARD PRINCE
Posted: April 30 2016 2:22 PM
Jones had written April 21, "For 20 years, I have walked by that towering granite and bronze eyesore glorifying the nadir of America’s past. For 20 years, I have listened to cries for its removal. For 20 years, we have been plagued by confusion, compromises, excuses and half measures. One hundred twenty-one years is too long. Twenty years is too long. Twenty more weeks is too long. We’ve waited long enough. It's time for the statue to go. . . ."
The Courier-Journal's Phillip M. Bailey reported Friday that Fischer and Ramsey gathered at the monument across from the Speed Art Museum on Third Street, joined by several city and university officials and U of L students.
"I recognize that some people say this monument should stay here because it is part of history, but I also appreciate that we can make our own history," Fischer said.
The decision came less than two weeks after Ricky L. Jones, professor and chair of Pan-African Studies at U of L, wrote a column in the Courier-Journal calling for the mayor and university to take the monument down. "We don't consider ourselves in Louisville to be part of the South," Fischer said in an interview after the announcement. Both Fischer and Ramsey’s offices said they had been working on moving it for several weeks. Jones said that whatever motivated the decision, he is elated the monument will no longer be on campus. He said generations of U of L students, faculty and staff have opposed the statue's existence ...
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