Kentucky judge rules Louisville can remove Confederate monument

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Kentucky judge rules Louisville can remove Confederate monument

By Steve Bittenbender

May 25, 2016

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - The city of Louisville, Kentucky, can remove a 121-year-old monument to Confederate soldiers that critics have objected to as an emblem of slavery, a state judge ruled on Wednesday.

In a ruling from the bench, Jefferson Circuit Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman dissolved her temporary order from three weeks ago that had blocked the city and a local university from taking down the monument.

Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said he would work on relocating the 70-foot-high (21-metre) monument after getting the judge's written order, according to a statement from his office.

A diversity committee at the University of Louisville had pushed for the monument to come down, joining a national push to remove public symbols of the Confederacy seen by critics as fostering racism.


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[salinsky]

1. I was driven past that thing every day from as early as I can remember ...

... until I was about nine or ten.

It was only until I actually began attending the University of Louisville that I consciously understood what it is.

They can bust it up into gravel and scrap metal for all I care.