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struggle4progress

(118,039 posts)
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 12:08 AM Oct 2016

Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

by Jordan Buckley
Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:38 am CST

An 85-year-old monument to Confederate president Jefferson Davis on the Texas State University campus vanished without a peep last week.

Following a year of outcry from students, professors and community groups, the granite memorial along one of San Marcos’ busiest roads was quietly uprooted on Friday and moved to a site seven miles away in Hunter, on land donated to the United Daughters of the Confederacy ...

The United Daughters of the Confederacy installed the monument with great fanfare in 1931 ... Just seven years before, the town proudly played host to 20,000 Klansmen for the statewide gathering of the Ku Klux Klan ...


https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-state-confederate-monument/

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Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2016 OP
Progress StrictlyRockers Oct 2016 #1
I guess they wanted it removed louder with lots of peeps. egduj Oct 2016 #2

StrictlyRockers

(3,854 posts)
1. Progress
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 01:15 AM
Oct 2016

Slowly but surely. Even in Texas. They can be messed with, and PC culture is the law of the land. Get with the program, you hick-neanderthals.

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