Jeff Davis Leaves University of Texas Main Mall

[struggle4progress]

Source: WOAI News Radio

A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which has stood in a prominent place on the campus of the University of Texas for nearly a century, was removed on Sunday, in a sign of changing attitudes about the appropriateness of displaying monuments honoring 19th Century supporters of slavery.

The university said in a statement that the Davis statue will be wrapped for protection, and then removed to its new location at an American history museum on campus where it will be 'refurbished for interior display' and will be exhibited 'within 18 months' ...

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[jtuck004]

1. A handful of people pat themselves on the back at removing this sad reminder to slavery,

while standing on the nation where their ancestors killed off the native people so they could steal their land and riches. While they occupy that ground their victims still live in the concentration camps the United States threw the survivors of our genocide into.

They don't realize what a monument to racism they themselves are.

United States of Hypocrites.

[struggle4progress]

2. A black career army man once told me, when I asked about his feelings, that he regarded America

as "a work in progress"

Our real history is a jumble of dreadful, ordinary, and sublime moments; our future depends on what we can accomplish, slowly and laboriously, often taking two steps forward and one step back

[Historic NY]

4. I'd suggest the scrap heap of history....

where it can be sold off by the pound.

[Hulk]

5. Hooray!

Put a checkmark in "the good box" for Texas. Hopefully they will move into the Twenty-first Century before too long.

[Unknown Beatle]

6. I hope the USA will move into the

twenty-first century before too long.