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Located in Charlestons White Point Gardens, the statue was dedicated To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston -- Fort Sumter in a reference to the U.S. Civil War. The defaced statue was briefly covered with a tarp, but the tarp has since been removed, exposing the graffiti to bystanders....
http://www.ibtimes.com/confederate-statue-vandalized-graffiti-charleston-emanuel-ame-church-reopens-1976540
Photos at link, sorry I don't know how to post
Warpy
(111,255 posts)It should stay there forever, IMO.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)At the southeastern corner of White Point Garden is a large allegorical statue dedicated "To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston - Fort Sumter 1861-1865." Erected by the Charleston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1932, the bronze statue is 12 feet tall and rests on a granite base 13 feet tall. The sculptor was Hermon Atkins MacNeil.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Point_Garden
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)People care more about the Benedict Arnold's who opened fire on soldiers of United States Army than about black lives.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)And the streets named for such people and that flag. I do not understand it at all.
DBoon
(22,363 posts)She persuaded Napoleon to re-instate slavery. The modern descendents of slaves show their appreciation this way: